Re: [RFC V2 PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir nameto mount debugfs filesystem.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 12:35:53 EST



On Fri, 29 May 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> ===
> When debugfs is configured into the kernel (which selecting any ftrace
> option will do) the directory /sys/kernel/debug will be created. To mount
> this directory, you can add to your /etc/fstab file:
>
> debugfs /debug debugfs defaults 0 0
>
> Or you can mount it at run time with:
>
> mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
>
> For quicker access to that directory you may want to make a soft link to
> it:
>
> ln -s /sys/kernel/debug /debug
>
> Any selected ftrace option will also create a directory called tracing
> within the debugfs. The rest of the document will assume that you are in
> the ftrace directory (cd /sys/kernel/debugfs) and will only concentrate

s,/sys/kernel/debugfs,/sys/kernel/debug/tracing,

> on the files within that directory and not distract from the content with
> the extended "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing" path name.
> ===

-- Steve

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