On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:28, Andrew Morton wrote: > Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in > > > sysfs or to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs > > > namespace. Why should the kernel not be able to add objects to a > > > directory a user created? It should be up to the module author to > > > decide these things. > > > > This is precisely why configfs is separate from sysfs. If both > > user and kernel can create objects, the lifetime of the object and its > > filesystem representation is very complex. Sysfs already has problems > > with people getting this wrong. configfs does not. > > The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores > > does not make them the same thing. > > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks. I'm sure there's some > way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase?
I will have that patch ready later this week. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/