Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why is mounting debugfs allowed at all? Last I checked (it has been a while) > the code quality of debugfs was fine for debugging but debugfs was not > safe to mount on a production system. > > Maybe the code quality is better now but for a filesystem that is > not supposed to be needed for developers letting us mount debugfs > seems odd. I agree. But debugfs has been abused and it seems that there are some things that use it as an interface between a kernel driver and the userspace side. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
