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Message-ID: <CAPDyKFr5H5x9LRjvVsDbNoGgZx-EnZGgUD9fEt=esN8HumNDHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:20:59 +0200
From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] debugfs: Add and use debugfs_create_xul()

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 16:37, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
> The existing debugfs_create_ulong() function supports objects of
> type "unsigned long", which are 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the
> platform, in decimal form.  To format objects in hexadecimal, various
> debugfs_create_x*() functions exist, but all of them take fixed-size
> types.
>
> To work around this, some drivers call one of debugfs_create_x{32,64}(),
> depending on the size of unsigned long.
> Other driver just cast the value pointer to "u32 *" or "u64 *",
> introducing portability bugs or data leaks in the process.
>
> Hence this patch series adds a debugfs helper for "unsigned long"
> objects in hexadecimal format, and converts drivers to make use of it.
> It also contains two cleanups removing superfluous casts, which I added
> to this series to avoid conflicts.
>
> Thanks for your comments!

The mmc changes looks good to me. I guess we could funnel via Greg's
"debugfs" tree?

In such case, feel free to add my ack for the mmc changes.

Kind regards
Uffe

>
> Geert Uytterhoeven (7):
>   debugfs: Add debugfs_create_xul() for hexadecimal unsigned long
>   mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
>   net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
>   mmc: atmel-mci: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
>   mmc: atmel-mci: Remove superfluous cast in debugfs_create_u32() call
>   mmc: dw_mmc: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
>   mmc: dw_mmc: Remove superfluous cast in debugfs_create_u32() call
>
>  drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c   | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c      | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/debugfs.h        | 10 ++++++++++
>  net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c     | 17 +++--------------
>  5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                                                 Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                                             -- Linus Torvalds

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