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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:05:24PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> "To offers various helper methods to interface with the Linux kernel:
> debugfs, procfs, sysfs handling routines with no policy, just pure,
> obvious helpers to use kernel functionality."

Exactly.

> Naming is a bit hard, to keep it small, descriptive, as API can lead
> people to think about other kinds of kernel APIs (syscalls?), "fskapi"
> to mean "fs based kernel API" would perhaps be more descriptive? A
> longer (more descriptive) possibility would be "linux-fskapi".

Yeah, you can't have fskapi because we'll add other stuff to it (see
the diffstat I sent you last week) so not filesystem stuff only. So I
think "kapi" is as generic and as fitting as it gets. We can use the
"kernel-api" variant but I think the "k" is enough.

:-)

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