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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs: Revamp debugfs_create_{u,x,s}{8,16,32,64} to support signed integers
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:05:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071216170550.GA12697@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197823079.7530.11.camel@localhost>

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 05:37:59PM +0100, Mattias Nissler wrote:
> This makes debugfs use its own file_operations for the value accessor files
> created by debugfs_create_XXX. Having that, we can also have proper versions
> for signed integers.

Why not tweak the "SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE" code to support this instead?  That
way debugfs and all other filesystems could also use these attributes?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-16 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-16 16:37 [PATCH] debugfs: Revamp debugfs_create_{u,x,s}{8,16,32,64} to support signed integers Mattias Nissler
2007-12-16 17:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-12-16 17:19   ` Mattias Nissler

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