On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:55:45PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > I've always been a bit confused by the debugfs design, which seems a > giant compost heap like /proc where we find a specific styrofoam cup > useful and the temporary thing becomes permanent. (Why is there _one_ > debugfs?) The rules for debugfs are very simple: There are no rules. That's it. It's up to the kernel developer to do what they need to do, for debugging stuff, how ever they best see fit. Yes, it replaces proc for all of the debugging stuff that shouldn't have been there before, how it's structured, is up to the developer adding the code. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
