linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fault-inject: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS

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Date:   Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:31:43 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fault-inject: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE to define
 debugfs fops

On 2019/10/30 17:10, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 04:22:36PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> It is more clear to use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs file
>> operation rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE.
> Why does this matter?  What does this change?  You are changing how some
> of the file reference counting works now, are you sure this is ok?
I think that it is more correct to use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(), since they are debugfs attrs.
It is designed and defined for debugfs fops.  

Of course,  Use DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE here  to define debugfs attrs is feasible  functionally.

Thanks,
zhong jiang
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> .
>