From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:39:36 +0200
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On Thursday 21 August 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:44 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> >
> > Exporting profiling data for a file system in another file system 
> > (/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth 
> > considering to export this information via the same mount point.
> 
> I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'.
> 

Let me throw in debugfs as my preferred option. sysfs is for stable
interfaces, while profiling generally fits into the debugging category.

	Arnd <><
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