[OE-core] [PATCH 0/7] Create ext* filesystems using debugfs

[Darren Hart]

On 02/26/2013 09:53 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
>> * Summary:
>>   [...]now we use the mkfs.ext3/ext4 to create the image, and use mkdebugfs.sh
>>   to copy the files to the image.
> 
> For a while this had me confused because I somehow thought you were
> proposing using the Linux kernel's debugfs to create filesystems (i.e.
> mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug). Maybe I'm still confused,
> but if not I think, perhaps, it would be nice to come up with a better
> name for this script since the name clash will probably trip others up
> too.

It is confusing, unfortunately, debugfs is provided by e2fsprogs, not
something of our making. If you would prefer another name for
mkdebugfs.sh, that's fine. What would you propose?

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel