Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi...

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / filesystems / debugfs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 6872c91bce35944ec4d9ebad65b013577f0b84da..7a34f827989c1fe5c1f3c29bebf57d101150322c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ Debugfs is typically mounted with a command like:
 
     mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
 
-(Or an equivalent /etc/fstab line). 
+(Or an equivalent /etc/fstab line).
+The debugfs root directory is accessible by anyone by default. To
+restrict access to the tree the "uid", "gid" and "mode" mount
+options can be used.
 
 Note that the debugfs API is exported GPL-only to modules.
 
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ file.
        void __iomem *base;
     };
 
-    struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode,
+    struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
                                     struct dentry *parent,
                                     struct debugfs_regset32 *regset);