Re: debugfs directory structure

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:41:08PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
 > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
 > >  > Hi Greg,
 > >  > 
 > >  > Now that debugfs is merged into Linus's tree, I'm looking at using it
 > >  > to replace the IPoIB debugging pseudo-filesystem (ipoib_debugfs).  Is
 > >  > there any guidance on what the structure of debugfs should look like?
 > >  > Right now I'm planning on putting all the debug info files under an
 > >  > ipoib/ top level directory.  Does that sound reasonable?
 > > 
 > > How about mirroring the toplevel kernel source structure ?
 > > 
 > > Ie, you'd make drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib ?
 > 
 > But who would be in charge of createing the "drivers/" subdirectory?
 > debugfs can't handle "/" in a directory name, like procfs does.

maybe it should ?

 > > It could get ugly quickly without some structure at least to
 > > the toplevel dir.
 > I say ipoib/ is fine, remember, this is for debugging stuff, it will
 > quickly get ugly anyway :)

with no heirarchy, what happens when two drivers want to make
the same directory / filenames ?

		Dave

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