From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] b43: don't save dentries for debugfs
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 18:30:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKPrl2NXL6EP7uJx@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518162759.3700269-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:27:59PM +0200, 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.
>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c | 34 +++------------------
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.h | 3 --
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
Bah, got the subject wrong, will resend...
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