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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>2019-10-21 17:06:45 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-03 18:08:52 +0100
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parentdebugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_atomic_t() (diff)
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Documentation: debugfs: Document debugfs helper for unsigned long values
When debugfs_create_ulong() was added, it was not documented. Fixes: c23fe83138ed7b11 ("debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191021150645.32440-1-geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index ac6067a02f74..36dac49e859f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ the following functions can be used instead:
These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the
value to be exported. Some types can have different widths on different
-architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat. There is a
-function meant to help out in one special case:
+architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat. There are
+functions meant to help out in such special cases:
void debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, size_t *value);
@@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ function meant to help out in one special case:
As might be expected, this function will create a debugfs file to represent
a variable of type size_t.
+Similarly, there is a helper for variables of type unsigned long:
+
+ struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent,
+ unsigned long *value);
+
Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with:
struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode,