[PATCH v5 04/10] ref_tracker: allow pr_ostream() to print directly to a seq_file

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:18:01 -0700 Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 16:27 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:26:27 -0700 Jeff Layton wrote:  
> > > Allow pr_ostream to also output directly to a seq_file without an
> > > intermediate buffer.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>  
> > 
> > lib/ref_tracker.c:316:12: warning: unused function 'ref_tracker_dir_seq_print' [-Wunused-function]
> >   316 | static int ref_tracker_dir_seq_print(struct ref_tracker_dir *dir, struct seq_file *seq)
> >       |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
> 
> The caller ends up being added in patch #6. I think the only thing I
> can do here to silence this is to squash this patch into that one.
> 
> I kind of don't like doing that here because I think the patches are
> conceptually separate, and it'll make for a rather large patch.
> 
> Let me know what you prefer.

Would it work to make the fops very dumbed down - return an error 
from open. And then implement the seqfile output as the next patch?