From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jwboyer@gmail.com (Josh Boyer) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:02:40 -0500 Subject: [ltt-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Make lttctl mount debugfs automatically In-Reply-To: <20090113235419.GA20644@suse.de> References: <49646208.7070607@cn.fujitsu.com> <4964BA2B.30200@polymtl.ca> <20090108144430.GA3778@Krystal> <7C0A417AB5B84CDCB9A9484C4E13A08C@zhaoleiwin> <20090109033021.GA25504@Krystal> <20090113235419.GA20644@suse.de> Message-ID: <20090114020240.GA27672@zod.rchland.ibm.com> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:54:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:30:22PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> * Zhaolei (zhaolei at cn.fujitsu.com) wrote: >> > * From: "Mathieu Desnoyers" >> > >* Zhaolei (zhaolei at cn.fujitsu.com) wrote: >> > >> * From: "Pierre-Marc Fournier" >> > >> > Zhaolei wrote: >> > >> >> lttctl need debugfs mounted, >> > >> >> This patch make lttctl mount debugfs automatically when it is not mounted. >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Isn't having a utility such as lttctl mount filesystems against standard >> > >> > unix semantics? Can you give an example of another standard command that >> > >> > uses a filesystem and that tries to mount it if it isn't already >> > >> > mounted? >> > >> Hello, Pierre-Marc, >> > >> >> > >> I can give a an example. >> > >> It is SystemTap. >> > >> >> > > >> > > No offence, but can you find an example which is not explicitly >> > > described as "bad taste" example by many people in the Linux kernel >> > > community ? >> > Hello, Mathieu >> > >> > I can't find another example of mounting debugfs automatically. > >Have you looked? openSUSE mounts it automatically, and I think Fedora >also does so. Fedora doesn't. At least not with the last 3 stable releases. josh