Re: [RFC PATCH 07/16] debugfs: Add signed versions of debugfs_create_u32/64 helpers - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, sudeep.holla@arm.com,
	james.quinlan@broadcom.com, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	souvik.chakravarty@arm.com, peter.hilber@opensynergy.com,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/16] debugfs: Add signed versions of debugfs_create_u32/64 helpers
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:21:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjSHXJZAlntzmyKZ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220227205608.30812-8-cristian.marussi@arm.com>

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 08:55:59PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Add a few helpers to deal with signed values integers; built on existing
> debugfs internal helpers as the existing unsigned functions already do.
> 
> Make the simple_attr_write() internal helper detect the sign of the
> requested set operation from the related format string: this is needed
> to be able to properly parse negatively signed input strings.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
> ---
> Note that in the rest of the series I do NOT need the s64 WRITE/SET
> operations, that required the more invasive simple_attr_write() change,
> but it seemed odd to implement a get only debug_create_s32/64 API.

Let's wait to add them when we have a need for them with a in-kernel
user.  Otherwise I'll just end up removing them eventually when I sweep
for "is this used" cleanups.

thanks,

greg k-h

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