Re: [PATCH 2/12] relayfs: export relayfs_create_file() with fileops param

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:49:05PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig writes:
>  > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:47:03AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>  > > This patch adds a mandatory fileops param to relayfs_create_file() and
>  > > exports that function so that clients can use it to create files
>  > > defined by their own set of file operations, in relayfs.  The purpose
>  > > is to allow relayfs applications to create their own set of 'control'
>  > > files alongside their relay files in relayfs rather than having to
>  > > create them in /proc or debugfs for instance.  relayfs_create_file()
>  > > is also used by relay_open_buf() to create the relay files for a
>  > > channel.  In this case, a pointer to relayfs_file_operations is passed
>  > > in, along with a pointer to the buffer associated with the file.
>  > 
>  > Again, NACK,  control files don't belong into relayfs.
>  > 
> 
> Sure, applications could just as easily create these same files in
> /proc, /sys, or /debug, but since relayfs is a filesystem, too, it
> seems to me to make sense to take advantage of that and allow them to
> be created alongside the relay files they're associated with, in
> relayfs.

Didn't we have that discussion before?  If we want a mix-and-match fs
just redo relayfs into a library of file operations for debugfs
(or anything else that can use file_operations for that matter)

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