Re: [PATCH 2/5] debugfs: function to know if debugfs is initialized

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 11:11:21 EST


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:18:05AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With ftrace, some tracers are registered in early initcalls
> > and attempt to create files on the debugfs filesystem.
> > Depending on when they are activated, they can try to create their
> > file at any time. Some checks can be done on the tracing area
> > but providing a helper to know if debugfs is registered make it
> > really more easy.
> >
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/debugfs/inode.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/debugfs.h | 8 ++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Greg, is this patch is fine with you?

This patch is fine with me, feel free to add:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
to it.

> If yes, then would you mind if we picked this up into the tracing
> tree - as a subsequent fix-patch relies on it. There's no debugfs
> patches pending that i can see that would conflict with this.

Yes, that is fine, please take it through the tracing tree.

greg k-h
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