Re: [PATCH 1/8] rsxx: Adding in debugfs entries.

From: Philip J. Kelleher
Date: Thu May 02 2013 - 10:35:53 EST


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:07:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, May 02 2013, Philip J. Kelleher wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 01 2013, Philip J. Kelleher wrote:
> > > > #define NO_LEGACY 0
> > > > +#define DEBUGFS_NULL NULL
> > > >
> > > > +static struct dentry *rsxx_debugfs_root = DEBUGFS_NULL;
> > >
> > > What's the point of DEBUGFS_NULL?
> >
> > Well, orginally, I had rsxx_debugfs_root initialized to NULL but
> > the checkpatch script told me not to initialize directly with 0
> > or NULL. So my solution is the #define macro.
>
> Well, it's a static variable. The reason checkpatch tells you not to
> initialize it to NULL/0 is because the bss is automatically zeroed.
>

Alright sounds good, I'll remove it.

Has the patch series been applied and a new patch with the proper
change need to sent or does the entire patch series need to be
resubmitted?

> --
> Jens Axboe
>

Thanks,
-Philip Kelleher

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