From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753900AbaHMVv5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:51:57 -0400 Received: from hqemgate14.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.143]:18818 "EHLO hqemgate14.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751704AbaHMVv4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:51:56 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp07.nvidia.com on Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:38:37 -0700 Message-ID: <53EBDF31.7010204@nvidia.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:57:05 -0700 From: Matt Longnecker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Subject: debugfs_create_{u,x,s}{8,16,32,64} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg, Back in December 2007 Mattias Nissler proposed a patch defining debugfs_create_s32 and friends. In it he reworked the already existent u and x versions. The subject of Mattias's mail was "[PATCH] debugfs: Revamp debugfs_create_{u,x,s}{8,16,32,64} to support signed integers". As I'm writing a new driver related to thermal management, I'm finding the absence of debugfs_create_s32 to be a stumbling block. I see at least two other folks who have stumbled on the absence of debugfs_create_s32 in the past few years. Why didn't we merge Mattias's patch? Would you entertain a similar patch today? Thanks, Matt Longnecker