On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:04:06AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:02:30PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > Err, that function is static and has two callers. > > > > Yes but that is to make it easier to look for who is creating the > > debugfs_dir for either the request_queue or partition. I'll export > > blk_debugfs_root and we'll open code all this. > > No, please not. exported variables are usually a bad idea. Just > skip the somewhat pointless trivial static function.
Alrighty. It has me thinking we might want to only export those symbols to a specific namespace. Thoughts, preferences? BLOCK_GENHD_PRIVATE ? The scsi-generic driver seems... rather unique, and I'd imagine we'd want to discourage such concoctions in the future, so proliferations of these symbols. Luis
