Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:28:46 -0700
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>

    Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> 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?
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