Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:05:42 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC PATCH] debugfs - yet another in-kernel file system |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:02:00PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 5:39 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > > What I'd really want out of a debug file API is to resolve > > > the naming issues, work with seq_file, and "softly and > > > silently vanish away". I think this patch has the last > > > two, but not the first one! > > > > I considered adding a kobject as a paramater to the debugfs interface. > > The file created would be equal to the path that the kobject has. Would > > that work for you? > > If I could pass device->kobj or driver->kobj, that'd be good.
Ok, I'll work on adding that.
> Will there be a /debug/devices tree parallel to /sys/devices?
If the kobject name is devices/foo/whatever, then yes, it would then match up the same, if you create a debugfs file with the kobject. If you don't do that, then no, I'm not going to maintain a mirror directory image of sysfs in debugfs just for the fun of it :)
thanks,
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