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From:   Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: move usb debugfs directory creation to the usb common core
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Date:   Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:25:14 +0300
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Hi,

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> index 7fcb9f782931..f3d6b1ab80cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
> @@ -1185,19 +1185,17 @@ static struct notifier_block usb_bus_nb = {
>  	.notifier_call = usb_bus_notify,
>  };
>  
> -struct dentry *usb_debug_root;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_debug_root);
> +static struct dentry *usb_devices_root;
>  
>  static void usb_debugfs_init(void)
>  {
> -	usb_debug_root = debugfs_create_dir("usb", NULL);
> -	debugfs_create_file("devices", 0444, usb_debug_root, NULL,
> -			    &usbfs_devices_fops);
> +	usb_devices_root = debugfs_create_file("devices", 0444, usb_debug_root,

don't we have a race now? Can usbcore ever probe before usb common?

-- 
balbi