| Message ID | 20121217182207.4CF51258@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | New, archived |
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Dave Hansen wrote: > > debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option. But, > today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that > are far from kernel hacking. Let's move it out of the very cluttered > "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other > filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc. > > Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_ > filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging. We also never call > it "the debug filesystem." We always say "debugfs", so reflect the > fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff -puN fs/Kconfig~be-clear-about-debugfs fs/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.git/fs/Kconfig~be-clear-about-debugfs 2012-12-17 12:34:03.955929278 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/Kconfig 2012-12-17 12:34:03.963929345 -0500 @@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ config HUGETLBFS config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS +config DEBUG_FS + bool "Debug Filesystem (debugfs)" + help + debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put + debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and + write to these files. + + For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see + Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. + + If unsure, say N. + source "fs/configfs/Kconfig" endmenu diff -puN lib/Kconfig.debug~be-clear-about-debugfs lib/Kconfig.debug --- linux-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug~be-clear-about-debugfs 2012-12-17 12:34:03.959929312 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug 2012-12-17 12:34:03.963929345 -0500 @@ -99,18 +99,6 @@ config UNUSED_SYMBOLS you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for your module is. -config DEBUG_FS - bool "Debug Filesystem" - help - debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put - debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and - write to these files. - - For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see - Documentation/DocBook/filesystems. - - If unsure, say N. - config HEADERS_CHECK bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux" depends on !UML
debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option. But, today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that are far from kernel hacking. Let's move it out of the very cluttered "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc. Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_ filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging. We also never call it "the debug filesystem." We always say "debugfs", so reflect the fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 ------------ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)