Re: [PATCH 1/7] move debugfs to filesystems menu (fs/Kconfig)

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Dec 17 2012 - 21:18:29 EST


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option. But,
> today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that
> are far from kernel hacking. Let's move it out of the very cluttered
> "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other
> filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc.
>
> Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_
> filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging. We also never call
> it "the debug filesystem." We always say "debugfs", so reflect the
> fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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