Re: [RFC PATCH] debugfs - yet another in-kernel file system

[Jan Engelhardt]

>What if there was a in-kernel filesystem that was explicitly just for
>putting debugging stuff?  Some place other than proc and sysfs, and that
>was easier than both of them to use.  Yet it needed to also be able to
>handle complex stuff like seq file and raw file_ops if needed.

As for modules, they could just wrap a variable in a module_param, don't they?

I have to admit that adding another filesystem that is very like procfs or
sysfs make some kind of redundancy.


Jan Engelhardt
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