Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 	The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores
> > does not make them the same thing.
> > 
> 
> Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks.  I'm sure there's some
> way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase?

	The way that configfs and sysfs create/destroy dentries and
their associated inodes is very different from the top, yet similar from
the bottom.  I suspect that some of it could be libraryized.  When I
first looked started configfs, I was starting from an "add on to sysfs"
perspective, after all.  The sysfs maintainers and I agreed, after much
discussion, that we should go to a separate tree.

Joel

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