linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] debugfs: rename, export, and use default_open() as debugfs_default

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:33:38 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hsweeten@...ionengravers.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] debugfs: rename, export, and use default_open() as
 debugfs_default_open()

On 3/20/2012 3:47 PM, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> Rename default_open() in fs/debugfs/file.c to debugfs_default_open()
> and export it for use by the many debugfs open() methods that simply
> do:
>
> static int foo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> {
> 	file->private_data = inode->i_private;
> 	return 0;
> }
>
> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
>
> ---
>

I sent a patch to introduce simple_open() which is this function ripped
from debugfs code. I also sent a patch to fixup all the callers
(including the non-debugfs ones). Seems like we arrived at the same
thing. Andrew has picked it up and it is in -mm.

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