From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] debugfs: Allow debugfs_create_dir() to take data Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:40:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20120815134015.GA22202@kroah.com> References: <1344407073-12030-1-git-send-email-hdoyu@nvidia.com> <1344407073-12030-2-git-send-email-hdoyu@nvidia.com> <20120808133427.GA14417@kroah.com> <20120809155624.b781edae9efa7c51faf6c31c@nvidia.com> <20120815084008.3d8f4ac20af5dc3372cd7681@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120815084008.3d8f4ac20af5dc3372cd7681-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Hiroshi Doyu Cc: "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org" , Al Viro , Felipe Balbi , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:40:08AM +0300, Hiroshi Doyu wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:56:24 +0200 > Hiroshi Doyu wrote: > > > Hi Greg, Felipe, > > > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:34:27 +0200 > > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:24:32AM +0300, Hiroshi Doyu wrote: > > > > Add __debugfs_create_dir(), which takes data passed from caller. > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Doyu > > > > --- > > > > fs/debugfs/inode.c | 7 ++++--- > > > > include/linux/debugfs.h | 9 ++++++++- > > > > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > ..... > > > What are you trying to do here? This patch doesn't look right at all. > > > > I missed to send the cover letter of this patch series to LKML, which > > explained the background. I attached that cover letter below. Please > > read the following explanation too. > > Any chance to get some feedback on this? I still don't like it, and then there's the basic fact that I'm pretty sure you broke the build with the patch, but who's noticing little things like that :) > I'm also sending another version of patch, which just uses > debgufs_create_dir() as Felipe suggested, in-reply-to this mail. I'd prefer not to change debugfs for this, so if you don't do that, I don't object to your driver-specific patch. greg k-h