Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:28:04 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/ |
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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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