Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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 <[email protected]>
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches