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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Jolly Shah <JOLLYS@xilinx.com>,
	"ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
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Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Rajan Vaja <RAJANV@xilinx.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/11] firmware: xilinx: Add debugfs for clock control APIs
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 09:57:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6579fdce-6845-70d5-1dc1-64d52debef19@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN1PR02MB3758191654612CFC261A38BEB89C0@SN1PR02MB3758.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>



On 14/05/18 20:18, Jolly Shah wrote:
> Hi Sudeep,

[..]

>> 
>> As I mentioned in earlier patch, I don't see the need for this
>> debugfs interface. Clock lay has read-only interface in debugfs
>> already. Also if you want to debug clocks, you can do so using the
>> driver which uses these clocks. Do you really want to manage clocks
>> in user-space ? The whole idea of EEMI kind of interface is to
>> abstract and hide the fine details even from non-trusted rich OS
>> like Linux kernel, but by providing this you are doing exactly
>> opposite.
> 
> No we don't want to manage clocks in user-space. This debugfs is
> meant for developer who wants to debug APIs behavior in case
> something doesn't work as expected. Debugfs should be off by default
> in production images.
> 

Good that it's not used in production image. The clock layer has
*sufficient* debugfs support that will *help in debugging*. So please
drop this Xilinx specific clock debugfs.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-10 19:38 [PATCH v6 00/11] drivers: Introduce firmware dnd clock river for ZynqMP core Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] dt-bindings: firmware: Add bindings for ZynqMP firmware Jolly Shah
2018-04-13 15:15   ` Rob Herring
2018-04-23 11:56     ` Greg KH
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] firmware: xilinx: Add Zynqmp firmware driver Jolly Shah
2018-05-10 14:04   ` Sudeep Holla
2018-05-14 19:06     ` Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] firmware: xilinx: Add zynqmp IOCTL API for device control Jolly Shah
2018-05-10 14:09   ` Sudeep Holla
2018-05-14 19:11     ` Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] firmware: xilinx: Add query data API Jolly Shah
2018-05-10 14:12   ` Sudeep Holla
2018-05-14 19:16     ` Jolly Shah
2018-05-15  9:34       ` Sudeep Holla
2018-05-15 20:29         ` Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] firmware: xilinx: Add clock APIs Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] firmware: xilinx: Add debugfs interface Jolly Shah
2018-05-10 14:26   ` Sudeep Holla
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] firmware: xilinx: Add debugfs for IOCTL API Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] firmware: xilinx: Add debugfs for query data API Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] firmware: xilinx: Add debugfs for clock control APIs Jolly Shah
2018-05-10 14:31   ` Sudeep Holla
2018-05-14 19:18     ` Jolly Shah
2018-05-15  8:57       ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2018-05-25 19:23         ` Jolly Shah
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] dt-bindings: clock: Add bindings for ZynqMP clock driver Jolly Shah
2018-04-16 21:28   ` Rob Herring
2018-04-10 19:38 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] drivers: clk: Add " Jolly Shah

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