Re: debugfs in the namespace

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 16 2004 - 23:13:22 EST


Followup to: <20041216110002.3e0ddf52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Pete
>

/dev is the normal place where stuff related to the user/kernel
interface should go, so /dev/debug or /dev/debugfs would be the right
answer (and yes, /proc and /sys violate this, but we're stuck with
those.)

-hpa
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