linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] kdb: Get rid of redundant kdb_register

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Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:37:13 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>
Cc:     kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] kdb: Get rid of redundant kdb_register_flags()

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 3:43 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> Commit e4f291b3f7bb ("kdb: Simplify kdb commands registration")
> allowed registration of pre-allocated kdb commands with pointer to
> struct kdbtab_t. Lets switch other users as well to register pre-
> allocated kdb commands via:
> - Changing prototype for kdb_register() to pass a pointer to struct
>   kdbtab_t instead.
> - Embed kdbtab_t structure in kdb_macro_t rather than individual params.
>
> With these changes kdb_register_flags() becomes redundant and hence
> removed. Also, since we have switched all users to register
> pre-allocated commands, "is_dynamic" flag in struct kdbtab_t becomes
> redundant and hence removed as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Looking at v3 responses [1], seems like you forgot to add again:

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>

This also looks good to me now.

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>