Re: [PATCH 1/3] DEBUGFS: Automatically create parents for debugfsfiles

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Dec 02 2011 - 14:58:12 EST


On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:42:19PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:17:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > I like this, but some documentation will probably need to be added
> > somwhere saying that it's now legal to create a debugfs file with
> > "this/is/a/tree" and have it all be expanded out.
>
> Ok. Updating the kerneldoc entries.
>
> >
> > And yes, cleaning up the directories shouldn't be a big issue, but what
> > if the directory is already there and it tries to be created again?
> > Shouldn't you do a lookup first and use that dentry if it's there?
>
> In this case debugfs_create_dir() errors out, the caller ignores
> the error and just looks it up. So yes should work.

Ah, ok, nevermind then :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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