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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] debugfs: Add and use debugfs_create_xul()
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 18:13:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191103171324.GA700462@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191025094130.26033-1-geert+renesas@glider.be>

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>         Hi all,
> 
> The existing debugfs_create_ulong() function supports objects of
> type "unsigned long", which are 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the
> platform, in decimal form.  To format objects in hexadecimal, various
> debugfs_create_x*() functions exist, but all of them take fixed-size
> types. 
>   
> To work around this, some drivers call one of debugfs_create_x{32,64}(),
> depending on the size of unsigned long.
> Other drivers just cast the value pointer to "u32 *" or "u64 *",
> introducing portability bugs or data leaks in the process.
>  
> Hence this patch series adds a debugfs helper for "unsigned long"
> objects in hexadecimal format, and converts drivers to make use of it.
> It also contains two cleanups removing superfluous casts, which I added
> to this series to avoid conflicts.
>  
> Changes compared to v1[1]:
>   - Add kerneldoc,
>   - Update Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt,
>   - Add Acked-by.
> 
> Dependencies:
>   - The first patch now depends on "Documentation: debugfs: Document
>     debugfs helper for unsigned long values"[2], which Jon said he
>     applied to his tree.

I did not take patches 2 or 3 as I need acks from those subsystem
maintainers to do so.

But I did take all the others.

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] debugfs: Add and use debugfs_create_xul()
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 18:13:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191103171324.GA700462@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191025094130.26033-1-geert+renesas@glider.be>

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>         Hi all,
> 
> The existing debugfs_create_ulong() function supports objects of
> type "unsigned long", which are 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the
> platform, in decimal form.  To format objects in hexadecimal, various
> debugfs_create_x*() functions exist, but all of them take fixed-size
> types. 
>   
> To work around this, some drivers call one of debugfs_create_x{32,64}(),
> depending on the size of unsigned long.
> Other drivers just cast the value pointer to "u32 *" or "u64 *",
> introducing portability bugs or data leaks in the process.
>  
> Hence this patch series adds a debugfs helper for "unsigned long"
> objects in hexadecimal format, and converts drivers to make use of it.
> It also contains two cleanups removing superfluous casts, which I added
> to this series to avoid conflicts.
>  
> Changes compared to v1[1]:
>   - Add kerneldoc,
>   - Update Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt,
>   - Add Acked-by.
> 
> Dependencies:
>   - The first patch now depends on "Documentation: debugfs: Document
>     debugfs helper for unsigned long values"[2], which Jon said he
>     applied to his tree.

I did not take patches 2 or 3 as I need acks from those subsystem
maintainers to do so.

But I did take all the others.

thanks,

greg k-h

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-03 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-25  9:41 [PATCH v2 0/7] debugfs: Add and use debugfs_create_xul() Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] debugfs: Add debugfs_create_xul() for hexadecimal unsigned long Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-04  7:28   ` Johannes Berg
2019-11-04  7:28     ` Johannes Berg
2019-11-04  7:39     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-04  7:39       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] mmc: atmel-mci: " Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mmc: atmel-mci: Remove superfluous cast in debugfs_create_u32() call Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mmc: dw_mmc: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mmc: dw_mmc: Remove superfluous cast in debugfs_create_u32() call Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25  9:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-03 17:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-11-03 17:13   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] debugfs: Add and use debugfs_create_xul() Greg Kroah-Hartman

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