Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:33:53 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/10] Add yaffs2 file system: Fifth patchset |
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:01:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 03:41:54PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:49:57PM +1300, Charles Manning wrote: > > > > Stripping out the tracing is easy enough but pointless if people (ie those > > > actually using yaffs) really want it. Same for the proc interface (though > > > that could be moved to sysfs). > > > Use debugfs please, if it's debugging stuff. If it's "real" stuff, then > > yes, it should be in sysfs, you already have a place for it in /sys/fs/ > > to use. Just abide by the sysfs rules and you will be fine. > > For the proc stuff - for tracing stuff then tracepoints are likely to be > a good option if it's useful to people.
Then use the in-kernel tracing functionality, don't roll your own. And that is not in /proc, so it should be there for this filesystem either.
thanks,
greg k-h
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