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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:12:48 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc: cocci@...ia.fr, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [cocci] [PATCH] Revert "debugfs, coccinelle: check for obsolete
DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() usage"
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Remove coccinelle's recommendation to use DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE()
> > instead of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE().
>
> I find this wording inappropriate for a change request
> because of an undesirable term duplication.
> Would you like to refer to the identifier “DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE” here?
Doh, copy+paste fail on my part.
> > Regardless of whether or not the
> > "significant overhead" incurred by debugfs_create_file() is actually
> > meaningful, warnings from the script have led to a rash of low-quality
> > patches that have sowed confusion and consumed maintainer time for little
> > to no benefit. There have been no less than four attempts to "fix" KVM,
> > and a quick search on lore shows that KVM is not alone.
>
> Will such information trigger any further clarification?
I don't quite follow the question. What information, and what clarification?
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