Name

debugfs_lookup — look up an existing debugfs file

Synopsis

struct dentry * debugfs_lookup (const char * name,
 struct dentry * parent);
 

Arguments

const char * name

a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to look up.

struct dentry * parent

a pointer to the parent dentry of the file.

Description

This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds. If the file doesn't exist or an error occurs, NULL will be returned. The returned dentry must be passed to dput when it is no longer needed.

If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -ENODEV will be returned.