[PATCH v2] b43: don't save dentries for debugfs
Jeff Johnson
jjohnson at codeaurora.org
Tue May 18 20:29:44 BST 2021
On 2021-05-18 09:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> There is no need to keep around the dentry pointers for the debugfs
> files as they will all be automatically removed when the subdir is
> removed. So save the space and logic involved in keeping them around
> by
> just getting rid of them entirely.
>
> By doing this change, we remove one of the last in-kernel user that was
> storing the result of debugfs_create_bool(), so that api can be cleaned
> up.
Question not about this specific change, but the general concept
of keeping (or not keeping) dentry pointers. In the ath drivers,
as well as in an out-of-tree driver for Android, we keep a
debugfs dentry pointer to use as a param to relay_open().
Will we still be able to have a dentry pointer for this purpose?
Or better, is there a recommended way to get a dentry pointer
NOT associated with debugfs at all (which would be ideal for
Android where debugfs is disabled).
Thanks,
Jeff
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