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Message-ID: <20130502143535.GB10306@oc6784271780.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:35:35 -0500
From: "Philip J. Kelleher" <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, klebers@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] rsxx: Adding in debugfs entries.
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:07:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, May 02 2013, Philip J. Kelleher wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 01 2013, Philip J. Kelleher wrote:
> > > > #define NO_LEGACY 0
> > > > +#define DEBUGFS_NULL NULL
> > > >
> > > > +static struct dentry *rsxx_debugfs_root = DEBUGFS_NULL;
> > >
> > > What's the point of DEBUGFS_NULL?
> >
> > Well, orginally, I had rsxx_debugfs_root initialized to NULL but
> > the checkpatch script told me not to initialize directly with 0
> > or NULL. So my solution is the #define macro.
>
> Well, it's a static variable. The reason checkpatch tells you not to
> initialize it to NULL/0 is because the bss is automatically zeroed.
>
Alright sounds good, I'll remove it.
Has the patch series been applied and a new patch with the proper
change need to sent or does the entire patch series need to be
resubmitted?
> --
> Jens Axboe
>
Thanks,
-Philip Kelleher
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