Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: dump: Make ptdump debugfs a separate option

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 05:31:09PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 09/29/2016 05:13 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:32:55PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >>+int ptdump_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name)
> >>+{
> >>+	ptdump_initialize(info);
> >>+	return ptdump_debugfs_create(info, name);
> >> }
> >
> >It feels like a layering violation to have the core ptdump code call the
> >debugfs ptdump code. Is there some reason this has to live here?
> 
> Which 'this' are you referring to here? Are you suggesting moving
> the ptdump_register elsewhere or moving the debugfs create elsewhere?

Sorry, I should have worded that better.

I meant moving ptdump_register into ptdump_debugfs.c, perhaps renamed to make it
clear it's debugfs-specific.

We could instead update existing users to call ptdump_debugfs_create()
directly, and have that call ptdump_initialize(), which could itself become a
staic inline in a header.

Thanks,
Mark.