Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:21:30 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] move debugfs to filesystems menu (fs/Kconfig) |
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Dave Hansen wrote: > > debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option. But, > today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that > are far from kernel hacking. Let's move it out of the very cluttered > "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other > filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc. > > Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_ > filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging. We also never call > it "the debug filesystem." We always say "debugfs", so reflect the > fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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