debugfs: implement symbolic links

debugfs: implement symbolic links

Implement a new function debugfs_create_symlink() which can be used
to create symbolic links in debugfs. This function can be useful
for people moving functionality from /proc to debugfs (e.g. the
gcov-kernel patch).

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 047567d34ca7..9fa0983d1aa8 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, mode_t mode,
 
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
 
+struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
+                                      const char *dest);
+
 void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry);
 
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, mode_t mode,
@@ -70,6 +73,13 @@ static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name,
         return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 }
 
+static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name,
+                                                    struct dentry *parent,
+                                                    const char *dest)
+{
+        return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+}
+
 static inline void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
 { }