Re: [PATCH 5/9] PM: suspend_block: Add debugfs file

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sat Apr 24 2010 - 00:26:50 EST


On 04/23/10 20:23, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> 2010/4/23 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:08:54 -0700 Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>>
>>> Report active and inactive suspend blockers in
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/suspend_blockers.
>>
>>
>> This looks more like user interface information than it does debug information.
>> If that's correct, it shouldn't be in debugfs.
>
> Where should it be? It is not allowed in sysfs, and procfs does not
> appear to be open to new files.

Why is it not allowed in sysfs? due to more than one value per file
or something else?

I don't think that procfs is closed to new files, but you may have to
justify why it should be used.

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