From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754292Ab1LLWby (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:31:54 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:45377 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752219Ab1LLWbx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:31:53 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: jcbIFV4qC4vdOaODRDclyq7G+p0TdXUydDPkNVh6H3mN 1323729112 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:19:55 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] DEBUGFS: Automatically create parents for debugfs files v2 Message-ID: <20111212221955.GA2268@kroah.com> References: <1322856167-23030-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1322856167-23030-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:02:46PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > Allow passing path names to debugfs_create* and automatically create > the parents. This makes it much simpler for the caller to create hierarchies. > > The way the reference counts are handled is admittedly a bit ugly. > > There is no way to clean them up currently other than to delete the tree, > but that doesn't seem like a big problem for debugfs to leave > behind a few empty directories. > > v2: Comment fixes based on review comments. > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen git, and checkpatch.pl complain a lot about this patch, care to fix up the issues and resend it? thanks, greg k-h