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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 4f45f71149cb..4a0a9c3f4af6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ This call, if successful, will make a directory called name underneath the indicated parent directory. If parent is NULL, the directory will be created in the debugfs root. On success, the return value is a struct dentry pointer which can be used to create files in the directory (and to -clean it up at the end). A NULL return value indicates that something went -wrong. If ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is returned, that is an indication that the -kernel has been built without debugfs support and none of the functions -described below will work. +clean it up at the end). An ERR_PTR(-ERROR) return value indicates that +something went wrong. If ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) is returned, that is an +indication that the kernel has been built without debugfs support and none +of the functions described below will work. The most general way to create a file within a debugfs directory is with: @@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ should hold the file, data will be stored in the i_private field of the resulting inode structure, and fops is a set of file operations which implement the file's behavior. At a minimum, the read() and/or write() operations should be provided; others can be included as needed. Again, -the return value will be a dentry pointer to the created file, NULL for -error, or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if debugfs support is missing. +the return value will be a dentry pointer to the created file, +ERR_PTR(-ERROR) on error, or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if debugfs support is +missing. Create a file with an initial size, the following function can be used instead: @@ -214,7 +215,8 @@ can be removed with: void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry); -The dentry value can be NULL, in which case nothing will be removed. +The dentry value can be NULL or an error value, in which case nothing will +be removed. Once upon a time, debugfs users were required to remember the dentry pointer for every debugfs file they created so that all files could be |