2017-11-30 13:22:58

by Maciej Purski

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] component: add debugfs support



On 11/30/2017 01:54 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Maciej Purski wrote:
>> Currently there is no information in any vfs about which devices
>> a master component consists of, what makes debugging hard if
>> one of the component devices fails to register.
>>
>> Add 'device_component' directory to debugfs. Create a new file for each
>> component master, when it has been added. Remove it on a master
>> deletion. Show a list of devices required by the given master and their
>> status (registered or not). This provides an easy way to check, which
>> device has failed to register if the given master device is not
>> available in the system.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maciej Purski <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> Changes in v4:
>> - fix and expand commit message
>> - inline no-op functions
>
> inline on static functions makes no sense - the compiler itself is at
> liberty to inline any static function that it thinks would benefit,
> and it is likely to do so with such a simple function.
>
> Generally we prefer to omit "inline" in .c files and let the compiler
> decide whether to inline or not.
>
> What was the reason for making this change? Do you have a case where
> this doesn't happen?
>
I don't have any case. I just thought this would be more obvious, but if the
general preference is to omit "inline", I'll fix this in the next version. Thanks.

Best regards,

Maciej

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