linux-kernel - Re: Getting debugfs mountpoint?

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Message-ID: <20120915021104.GS13973@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:11:04 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Jacob Sowles <sowlesj@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting debugfs mountpoint?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:07:43PM -0700, Jacob Sowles wrote:
> Multiple instances of my code can be run simultaneously, and all
> instances use the same debugfs directory, so I need the path to the
> debugfs root directory so that I can use filp_open to get the dentry
> for that directory.

What's wrong with just storing a pointer to that dentry in a variable?
And what do you want an opened file (of a directory, at that) on debugfs?
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