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

From: Joel Becker (Joel.Becker_at_oracle.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

    On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
    > > 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?

            The way that configfs and sysfs create/destroy dentries and
    their associated inodes is very different from the top, yet similar from
    the bottom. I suspect that some of it could be libraryized. When I
    first looked started configfs, I was starting from an "add on to sysfs"
    perspective, after all. The sysfs maintainers and I agreed, after much
    discussion, that we should go to a separate tree.

    Joel 

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