On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:52:29AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > You do have ->release and ->make_item/group. ->release is like kobject release. It's a free callback, not a callback from close. > If I may hand you a more substantive argument: you don't support user-driven > creation of files in configfs, only directories. Dlmfs supports user-created > files. But you know, there isn't actually a good reason not to support > user-created files in configfs, as dlmfs demonstrates. It is outside the domain of configfs. Just because it can be done does not mean it should be. configfs isn't a "thing to create files". It's an interface to creating kernel items. The actual filesystem representation isn't the end, it's just the means. Joel -- "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michaelangelo." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster