Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751572AbZIGTPZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:15:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750869AbZIGTPY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:15:24 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50340 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbZIGTPY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:15:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] debugfs - Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt From: Peter Zijlstra To: Greg KH Cc: leemgs1@gmail.com, linux-kernel , mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, Steven Rostedt , Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20090907185513.GA27876@kroah.com> References: <1252327037.2153.96.camel@centos51> <1252327737.7959.22.camel@laptop> <20090907185513.GA27876@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:15:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1252350914.7503.24.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 11:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 21:37 +0900, GeunSik Lim wrote: > > > > > > >From 99e8ab48d783e619329c31e8f91e4384729a2e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: GeunSik,Lim > > > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:34:19 +0900 > > > Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt > > > > > > We need common default directory of denbugfs for consistency. > > > (debugfs's default directory is /sys/kernel/debug/ by debugfs.) > > > > I'd rather we fix that brain-dead default. > > Um, why is that "brain-dead"? It was discussed many times when debugfs > first came out and this was what was decided on. >From what people tell me it wasn't a clear consensus. > So what is the problem? Its not related to sysfs in any way I can discover, its not consistent with most of the other virtual fs', and its way too much typing. we don't mount /dev, /proc, /sys in weird places either, so why should we mount /debug in a cumbersome location. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/