Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

[Andrew Morton]

Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in sysfs or 
> > to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs namespace.  Why 
> > should the kernel not be able to add objects to a directory a user created?  
> > It should be up to the module author to decide these things.
> 
> 	This is precisely why configfs is separate from sysfs.  If both
> user and kernel can create objects, the lifetime of the object and its
> filesystem representation is very complex.  Sysfs already has problems
> with people getting this wrong.  configfs does not.
> 	The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores
> does not make them the same thing.
> 

Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks.  I'm sure there's some
way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase?
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