On Friday, September 25, 2015 10:26:22 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, September 25, 2015 11:52:56 AM Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 25-09-15, 20:49, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Ok, then, but that means Rafael is completely wrong ... > > > debugfs_create_bool() takes a *pointer* and it needs to be long-lived, > > > it can't be on the stack. You also don't get a call when it changes. > > > > Ahh, ofcourse. My bad as well... > > Well, sorry about the wrong suggestion. > > > I think we can change structure definition but will wait for Rafael's > > comment before that. > > OK, change the structure then. But here's a question. You're going to change that into bool in the next patch, right? So what if bool is a byte and the field is not word-aligned and changing that byte requires a read-modify-write. How do we ensure that things remain consistent in that case? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
