On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote: > A bunch of code is duplicated between debugfs and tracefs, unify it to the > simplefs library. > > The code is very similar, except that dentry and inode creation are unified > into a single function (unlike start_creating in debugfs and tracefs, which > only takes care of dentries). This adds an output parameter to the creation > functions, but pushes all error recovery into fs/simplefs.c. > > Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/simplefs.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/simplefs.h | 19 +++++ > 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+) What's wrong with libfs, isn't that supposed to be for these types of "common" filesystem interactions? Why create a whole "new" fs for this? thanks, greg k-h
