Re: [RFC 02/11] introduce simple_fs_type

2008-02-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 23 February 2008, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:37AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: The most interesting function here is the new struct dentry * simple_register_filesystem(struct simple_fs_type *type), which returns the root directory of a new file system that can

Re: [RFC 02/11] introduce simple_fs_type

2008-02-23 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:37AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: There is a number of pseudo file systems in the kernel that are basically copies of debugfs, all implementing the same boilerplate code, just with different bugs. This adds yet another copy to the kernel in the libfs directory,

[RFC 02/11] introduce simple_fs_type

2008-02-18 Thread Arnd Bergmann
There is a number of pseudo file systems in the kernel that are basically copies of debugfs, all implementing the same boilerplate code, just with different bugs. This adds yet another copy to the kernel in the libfs directory, with generalized helpers that can be used by any of them. The most