Re: debugfs in the namespace

[Mike Waychison]

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Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:00:02AM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> 
>>Hi Greg,
>>
>>what is the canonic place to mount debugfs: /debug, /debugfs, or anything
>>else? The reason I'm asking is that USBMon has to find it somewhere and
>>I'd really hate to see it varying from distro to distro.
> 
> 
> Hm, in my testing I've been putting it in /dbg, but I don't like vowels :)
> 
> Anyway, I don't really know.  /dev/debug/ ?  /proc/debug ?  /debug ?
> 
> What do people want?  I guess it's time to write up a LSB proposal :(
> 

I thought debugfs was meant for just debugging.  As there is no plans
for standardizing its namespace, why are we allowing ourselves to rely
on it being mounted at all?

AFAICT, there should be no excuse for userspace to actually rely on any
of the data within debugfs.  Otherwise we end up with yet another
filesystem whose role is: Chaotic hodgepodge of magic files created by
drivers that couldn't bother to be well-organized.

Please, let's not make debugfs part of userspace.  Keep it for what it
is, debugging purposes only.


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