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From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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        Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] b43: don't save dentries for debugfs
References: <20210518163304.3702015-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 20:47:58 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20210518163304.3702015-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (Greg
        Kroah-Hartman's message of "Tue, 18 May 2021 18:33:04 +0200")
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> There is no need to keep around the dentry pointers for the debugfs
> files as they will all be automatically removed when the subdir is
> removed.  So save the space and logic involved in keeping them around by
> just getting rid of them entirely.
>
> By doing this change, we remove one of the last in-kernel user that was
> storing the result of debugfs_create_bool(), so that api can be cleaned
> up.
>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c | 34 +++------------------
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.h |  3 --
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>
> Note, I can take this through my debugfs tree if wanted, that way I can
> clean up the debugfs_create_bool() api at the same time.  Otherwise it's
> fine, I can wait until next -rc1 for that to happen.

Yeah, it's best that you take this via your tree.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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