Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] edac: Add an function to retrieve the EDAC debugfs node

["Lothar Waßmann" <LW-bxm8fMRDkQLDiMYJYoSAnRvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:30:58PM -0700, Loc Ho wrote:
> > Okay... The 'inline' helps with the compiler warning. If I move all to
> > header file with 'static inline' and wrapper around CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG,
> > don't I need to export and declare the variable 'edac_debugfs'? Are
> > you okay with export this variable?
> 
> You need to make edac_debugfs extern in the header and define it in
> edac_mc_sysfs.c.
> 
> But that's ok because edac_core.h will be included only by EDAC drivers
> and they're supposed to see edac_debugfs anyway...
> 
What's the point in having an accessor function that returns a driver
internal variable when this variable is exported anyway?
This will only further inconsistencies because half of the users will
use the variable directly and the other half will use the accessor
function.


Lothar Waßmann
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