Re: [PATCH 1/3] dcache: add a new enum type for 'dentry_d_lock_class'

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Nov 15 2019 - 08:39:45 EST


On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:38:13 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My guess is that debugfs was written to be as simple as possible.
> Nothing too complex. And in doing so, may have issues as you are
> pointing out. Just a way to allow communications between user space and
> kernel space (as tracefs started out).

And speaking of tracefs, as it was basically a cut and paste copy of
debugfs, it too has the same issues. Thus, I'm very much interested in
how this should be done.

-- Steve