linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/9] b43legacy: don't save dentries for debugfs

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Message-ID: <YKPrognSduymsPBC@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 18:30:26 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] b43legacy: don't save dentries for debugfs

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> There is no need to keep around the dentry pointers for the debugfs
> files as they will all be automatically removed when the subdir is
> removed.  So save the space and logic involved in keeping them around by
> just getting rid of them entirely.
> 
> By doing this change, we remove one of the last in-kernel user that was
> storing the result of debugfs_create_bool(), so that api can be cleaned
> up.
> 
> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  .../net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/debugfs.c | 29 ++++---------------
>  .../net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/debugfs.h |  3 --
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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