From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat•com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] simplefs: add file creation functions
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414125626.GC720679@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200414124304.4470-7-eesposit@redhat.com>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> A bunch of code is duplicated between debugfs and tracefs, unify it to the
> simplefs library.
>
> The code is very similar, except that dentry and inode creation are unified
> into a single function (unlike start_creating in debugfs and tracefs, which
> only takes care of dentries). This adds an output parameter to the creation
> functions, but pushes all error recovery into fs/simplefs.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat•com>
> ---
> fs/simplefs.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/simplefs.h | 19 +++++
> 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+)
What's wrong with libfs, isn't that supposed to be for these types of
"common" filesystem interactions?
Why create a whole "new" fs for this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-14 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-14 12:42 [PATCH 0/8] Simplefs: group and simplify linux fs code Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] apparmor: just use vfs_kern_mount to make .null Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-16 6:44 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-20 14:00 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] fs: extract simple_pin/release_fs to separate files Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-16 6:52 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-21 11:19 ` Frederic Barrat
2020-04-21 11:26 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] fs: wrap simple_pin_fs/simple_release_fs arguments in a struct Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 13:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-14 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] fs: introduce simple_new_inode Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 13:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-20 13:58 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] simplefs: add alloc_anon_inode wrapper Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-14 12:43 ` [PATCH 6/8] simplefs: add file creation functions Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-04-20 13:57 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-20 14:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-20 14:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-14 12:43 ` [PATCH 7/8] debugfs: switch to simplefs inode creation API Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-14 12:43 ` [PATCH 8/8] tracefs: " Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2020-04-16 6:59 ` [PATCH 0/8] Simplefs: group and simplify linux fs code Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-20 14:01 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
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