From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] devfs: add symlink support
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:01:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130306080118.GA4401@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130306074327.GD1906@pengutronix.de>
On 08:43 Wed 06 Mar , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:35:53PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
> > ---
> > fs/devfs.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/driver.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+)
>
> What's your usecase with this patch? Telling me could increase my
> motivation applying it.
I use it to handle boot device and tty today
so the application part does not care about the real hardware they always have
the same device (file) to search
>
> One thing I see with this patch that the next thing would be to add
> directory support to debugfs in which case we might be better off
> adding real device nodes and remove the devfs like we have it now
> completely.
yeah I've the idea to rewrite the devfs completly and the ramfs too
as the ramfs should be at vfs level so the devfs will nearly implement nothing
Best Regards,
J.
>
> Sascha
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-16 11:35 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-04 20:45 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-06 7:43 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-06 8:01 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2013-03-06 8:11 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-06 8:41 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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