Re: [PATCH] debugfs: add get/set for atomic types

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:49:01AM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
> debugfs currently lacks the ability to create attributes
> that set/get atomic_t values.
> 
> This patch adds support for this through a new
> debugfs_create_atomic_t() function.

Why would you want to set an atomic variable type from userspace?  What
in-kernel code needs this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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