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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(-) Got the subject wrong, will resend...
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