Re: [Patch] debugfs: remove module_exit()

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:19:58AM -0500, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> debugfs can't be a module, so module_exit() is meaningless
> for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> index 37a8ca7..d38c88f 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> @@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
>   *
>   */
>  
> -/* uncomment to get debug messages from the debug filesystem, ah the irony. */
> -/* #define DEBUG */

Why did you remove these lines?  They don't pertain to this patch.

> -
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/mount.h>
> @@ -540,17 +537,5 @@ static int __init debugfs_init(void)
>  
>  	return retval;
>  }
> -
> -static void __exit debugfs_exit(void)
> -{
> -	debugfs_registered = false;
> -
> -	simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
> -	unregister_filesystem(&debug_fs_type);
> -	kobject_put(debug_kobj);
> -}

When the code is built into the kernel, the __exit function should go
away, so this isn't costing us any extra memory, right?

And debugfs used to be able to be built as a module, perhaps it will be
in the future?  I don't think this patch is really needed.

thanks,

greg k-h