On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:52:29AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> You do have ->release and ->make_item/group.
->release is like kobject release. It's a free callback, not a
callback from close.
> If I may hand you a more substantive argument: you don't support user-driven
> creation of files in configfs, only directories. Dlmfs supports user-created
> files. But you know, there isn't actually a good reason not to support
> user-created files in configfs, as dlmfs demonstrates.
It is outside the domain of configfs. Just because it can be
done does not mean it should be. configfs isn't a "thing to create
files". It's an interface to creating kernel items. The actual
filesystem representation isn't the end, it's just the means.
Joel
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