Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:32:14 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
       Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: relay channel buffers as sysfs attributes
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:27:17PM -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 
> Greg KH wrote:
> > And as a debug tool, debugfs seems like the perfict place for it, as you
> > have just stated :)
> 
> So then the statement is that debugfs is for _ALL_ kinds of debugging,
> including application debugging. IOW, anyone considering debugfs as
> an fs exclusive to kernel-developers is WRONG. IOW2, distros should
> _NOT_ shy away from enabling debugfs by default on their production
> kernels.
> 
> Right?

Sure, I don't see why not.  But if a distro doesn't include anything in
their kernels that use debugfs, then they have no reason to enable it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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