linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Expose the irq

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:11:58 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose the irq_desc node in proc/irq

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:25:32 -0600
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com> wrote:

> Expose the irq_desc node as /proc/irq/*/node.
> 

:(

If the changelog provides no reason for the change, the recipient has
no reason to apply the patch.

>
> ...
> +	return single_open(file, irq_node_proc_show,  PDE(inode)->data);

I'd have expected checkpatch to complain about the double-space, but it
doesn't.

> ...
>  	/* create /proc/irq/<irq>/smp_affinity */
>  	proc_create_data("smp_affinity", 0600, desc->dir,
>  			 &irq_affinity_proc_fops, (void *)(long)irq);
> +
> +	proc_create_data("node", 0444, desc->dir,
> +			 &irq_node_proc_fops, (void *)(long)irq);
>  #endif
>  
>  	proc_create_data("spurious", 0444, desc->dir,

This should be documented in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt,
alongside smp_affinity.
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