linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: debugfs: Document debugfs helper for unsigned long values

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:56:25 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: debugfs: Document debugfs helper for
 unsigned long values

On 21-10-19, 17:06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> When debugfs_create_ulong() was added, it was not documented.
> 
> Fixes: c23fe83138ed7b11 ("debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
> index 9e705026ac103b6f..50e8f91f2421ec04 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
> @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ the following functions can be used instead:
>  
>  These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the
>  value to be exported.  Some types can have different widths on different
> -architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat.  There is a
> -function meant to help out in one special case:
> +architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat.  There are
> +functions meant to help out in such special cases:
>  
>      void debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode,
>  			       struct dentry *parent, size_t *value);
> @@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ function meant to help out in one special case:
>  As might be expected, this function will create a debugfs file to represent
>  a variable of type size_t.
>  
> +Similarly, there is a helper for variables of type unsigned long:
> +
> +    struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode,
> +					struct dentry *parent,
> +					unsigned long *value);
> +
>  Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with:
>  
>      struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode,

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

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viresh