[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#418445: Bug#418445: Bug#418445: initscripts: please mount debugfs on boot

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi Petter!

You wrote:

> [Bas Zoetekouw]
> > That should be no problem at all.  I just thought it would fit there
> > best. Afaik there is nothing in the rest of the init sequence that
> > depends on it and would require it to be mounted early on in the
> > boot sequence.
> 
> If there is nothing requiring it to be part of the initscripts
> package, I would recommend it being done by another package, closer to
> the debugfs support.  The reason is to reduce the complexity of
> initscripts, and keep the changes needed for debugs close to the
> packages using it.

I guess I could put an initscript in blktrace, which is atm (afaik) the
only program using it.  

I'm not sure I really like that solution though, as debugfs is a generic
kernel feature and not specific to blktrace afaik.  As the kernel
developers put it: "In principle, it is the same as /proc, just with the
explicit information that binary compatibility will never be a goal"
[1].  So I would find it most natural to do the mounting alongside with
mounting /sys and /proc.

Bas.

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/4394

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