Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:04:24 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: My vision of usbmon |
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:38:54PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:57 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:04:54PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > Hi, Guys: > > > > > > This is usbmon which I cooked up because I got tired from adding dbg()'s > > > and polluting my dmesg. I use it to hunt bugs in USB storage devices so > > > far, and it's useful, although limited at this stage. > > > > > > I looked at the Harding's USBmon patch, and I think he got a few things right. > > > The main of them is that I underestimated the benefits of placing the special > > > files into the filesystem namespace. When we discussed it with Greg in the > > > airport, we decided that having some sort of Netlink-style socket would be > > > the best option. I decided to make a u-turn and attach those sockets into > > > the namespace (currently under /dbg, but it can change). What this buys us is: > > > > > Is there any reason why these debug filesystems are going under the > root directory? Why not /sys/debug or /sys/kernel/debug or something?
See the previous thread as to where to mount debugfs. In short, I don't really care :)
thanks,
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