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x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam09 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: BAF8A16000E X-Stat-Signature: zqj8cfpwhzoko74i6cbxybnf711k4aus X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1706233860-435099 X-HE-Meta: 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 AorAxRvp ybT1O+AKKsGCsmPJbX2zqi41kBzMFDtAPZ4kgeNe33IvRsnDh9Ju2P8UVnCjL4035IdYdyXcrpxWMbGDktDNmjdH1X8ISiAO9/kL7/gqamgJ9a4D5R1dDOE/zFqNX1DN2xdtcACNGff7TQaC55CRgjH7sJfyUDsGTMOho66TubmscNV2E4iRmdCdLYIm601tLscEi8EyfI2wYO7QxEGbUH5sMOeFu5ukogoJMc0GTdG8/76Do3ONzvUk/RXTWOtnW5nWHNhok73bGAplkaDNnHOre6d4gF2AfYdeaaKuek6JEIgUxJmIJ6yAevg== X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:24:03 -0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:48:22AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Now that I have finished the eventfs file system, I would like to present a > > proposal to make a more generic interface that the rest of tracefs and even > > debugfs could use that wouldn't rely on dentry as the main handle. > > You mean like kernfs does for you today? :) > I tried to use kernfs when doing a lot of this and I had issues. I don't remember what those were, but I can revisit it. -- Steve