Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Initialize debugfs/ksysfs earlier?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:55:33PM +0300, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> Hi Greg & all,
> 
> I would like to add a new debugfs file like in the next patch but
> I'm having a problem with commit 56348560d495 ("debugfs: do not
> attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized").

You should have had a problem before that commit happened as well,
right?

> 
> The problem is debugfs is initialized after the driver core, during
> the core initcall, so I get an -ENOENT failure due to the above commit.
> 
> My first reaction is to move the ksysfs_init() and debugfs_init() calls
> before the driver core init which works. Would that be ok?
> 
> An alternative would be to create the new debugfs file somewhere else
> than the driver core, but I'm not sure where would be a good location,
> maybe in debugfs_init()? Doesn't seem right.

I don't really want the driver core to be messing with debugfs at all,
why is that needed?  I'll respond on your patch...

thanks,

greg k-h