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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 09:41:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130306084153.GD4401@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130306081122.GF1906@pengutronix.de>

On 09:11 Wed 06 Mar     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:01:18AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > 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
> 
> This is in the same league as I wanted to do with persistent device
> names. We should think about this in a more general way.
> 
> > > 
> > > 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
> 
> vfs level? You would have to implement one first, we do not have a vfs
> level at all ;)
yeah because today we duplicate too much code so with this we wil reduce the
size of barebox

Best Regards,
J.

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06  8:46 UTC|newest]

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
2013-03-06  8:11     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-06  8:41       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]

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