Re: logging data to a file.

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg KH wrote:
> If relayfs doesn't work for you (and I do agree that it does have some
> odd attributes at times), then just use debugfs instead of procfs.  You
> can use your same seqfile interface, so it should be a very small change
> to your code.

Hmmm.  I didn't know debugfs had similar APIs.
I'll check this out pronto.  Thanks!

> If you have any questions about debugfs, please let me know.  It's quite
> easy to just add a single line to /etc/fstab to always mount the thing,
> so you can't use that as an excuse :)

Many of the embedded boards I work with aren't set up
to automatcially process /etc/fstab.  But since it's still
only a single line in some startup script, the point is taken.
(It's rare that I'm missing 'mount', but it has happened.)

Regards,
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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