Re: Merging relayfs?

From: Karim Yaghmour
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 22:21:19 EST



Greg KH wrote:
> What ever happened to exporting the relayfs file ops, and just using
> debugfs as your controlling fs instead? As all of the possible users
> fall under the "debug" type of kernel feature, it makes more sense to
> confine users to that fs, right?

Actually, like we discussed the last time this surfaced, there are far
more users for relayfs than just debugging. What we settled on was
having relayfs export its file ops so that indeed debugfs users could
use it to log things in conjunction with debugfs.

Karim
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