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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:28:45 +0800
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On Monday, May 09, 2016 18:41:08 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
> 
> debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
> where files are dynamically added and removed (see
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some
> details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware.
> 
> Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be
> moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers
> for debug tables and hard to parse text files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> [sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family,
> add missing kerneldoc]
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                     |  1 +
>  Makefile                        |  1 +
>  compat-include/net/genetlink.h  | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/batman-adv/Makefile         |  1 +
>  net/batman-adv/main.c           |  3 +++
>  net/batman-adv/netlink.c        | 57
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/batman-adv/netlink.h        |
> 24 +++++++++++++++++
>  8 files changed, 174 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 compat-include/net/genetlink.h
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h
>  create mode 100644 net/batman-adv/netlink.c
>  create mode 100644 net/batman-adv/netlink.h

Applied in revision 2b20eb5.

Thanks,
Marek

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