linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16 v3] tracing: Add new file system tracefs

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Message-ID: <20150126154419.409e7138@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:44:19 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16 v3] tracing: Add new file system tracefs

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:42:59 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

  
> -	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
> +struct dentry *tracefs_create_instance_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
> +					  int (*mkdir)(const char *name),
> +					  int (*rmdir)(const char *name))

Now what I could also do is to only allow this to be called once. And
in that case, we can hard code what mkdir and rmdir are. This could
work as currently there only exists a single instance of the instances
directory.

I might just do that too.

-- Steve

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