Re: [PATCH 1/5] debugfs: pass NULL as the last parameter of debugfs_print_regs32()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> >> This function is only used (twice) by the author of it, and the
> >> 'prefix' feature is never used.
> 
> I introduced it to shrink some internal code that had a lot of
> repetition in the debugfs files implementation. In that context I use
> the prefix string.  Some of the code had later been submitted, but not
> yet all of it.  Later work by Davide Ciminaghi moved our MFD user to
> the regmap interface, according to maintainer's suggestion (which
> however means loosing register names from the debugfs dump).

What is the status of the rest of that code getting accepted?

> > If the parameter isn't being used, please, just delete it.
> 
> It is not currently used by upstream callers, but the function itself
> uses it as documented (Documentation/...).  I wouldn't remove the
> feature and introduce an incompatibility just for this.

But if no one is using it, we can fix the documentation, and just drop
it.

thanks,

greg k-h