Re: [PATCH 6/8] simplefs: add file creation functions

On 20/04/20 16:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> I assume you meant a new file. These new functions are used only by a few
>> filesystems, and I didn't want to include them in vmlinux unconditionally,
>> so I introduced simplefs.c and CONFIG_SIMPLEFS instead of extending libfs.c.
>> In this way only fs that need this code like debugfs and tracefs will load
>> it.
> Nothing "loads it", why not just make these libfs functions instead?  As
> the difference between the two is not obvious at all, please don't make
> things confusing.

I think Emanuele meant "will link it" not "will load it".

Emanuele, you can just move everything to libfs.c and get rid of
CONFIG_SIMPLEFS too.  "Do less" is not an offer you want to turn down!

Thanks,

Paolo