linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: add core-managed per-client directory in debugfs

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Message-ID: <Z4ZRn4v1nEaCSkUT@shikoro>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:59:27 +0100
From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
To: linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: add core-managed per-client directory in debugfs

On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 01:21:10PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> More and more I2C client drivers use debugfs entries and currently they
> need to manage a subdir for their files on their own. This means
> inconsistent naming for these subdirs and they are scattered all over
> the debugfs-tree as well. Not to mention the duplicated code.
> 
> Let the I2C core provide and maintain a proper directory per client.
> 
> Note: It was considered to save the additional pointer in 'struct
> i2c_client' and only provide a subdir when requested via a helper
> function. When sketching this approach, more and more corner cases
> appeared, though, so the current solution with its simple and unabiguous
> code was chosen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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