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DateFri, 23 Apr 2010 21:54:29 -0700
SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/9] PM: suspend_block: Add debugfs file
FromArve Hjønnevåg <>
2010/4/23 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>:
> On 04/23/10 20:23, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> 2010/4/23 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>:
>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:08:54 -0700 Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Report active and inactive suspend blockers in
>>>> /sys/kernel/debug/suspend_blockers.
>>>
>>>
>>> This looks more like user interface information than it does debug information.
>>> If that's correct, it shouldn't be in debugfs.
>>
>> Where should it be? It is not allowed in sysfs, and procfs does not
>> appear to be open to new files.
>
> Why is it not allowed in sysfs?  due to more than one value per file

Yes.

> or something else?
>
> I don't think that procfs is closed to new files, but you may have to
> justify why it should be used.
>

I used procfs in the original version and there were a lot of
objections to this, so I moved it to debugfs.

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Arve Hjønnevåg
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