Re: [PATCHSET driver-core-next] kernfs: implement kernfs_dir_ops

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 16:22:42 EST


Hey, Greg.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:19:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Very cool, will this let us move configfs to use kernfs as well? That's
> one of the reasons that the two filesystems couldn't be merged in the
> past from what I remember.

I haven't looked into the details but configfs would need hooks for
more operations - file creation and all; however, those should be
trivial. kernfs doesn't care what those operations do at all. All it
needs to do is just routing the invocations through the callbacks.

Thanks.

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tejun
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