On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 09:03 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 01:27:16PM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 08:11:20AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 08:52:45AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
Using DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE macro with debugfs_create_file_unsafe() function in place of the debugfs_create_file() function will make the file operation struct "reset" aware of the file's lifetime. Additional details here: https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/linux/kernel/2369498
Issue reported by Coccinelle script: scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
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There is a reason we didn't just do a global search/replace for this in the kernel when the new functions were added, so I don't know why checkpatch is now saying it must be done.
I think it's not a checkpatch warning here.