From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next 0/2] IB/opa_vnic: Add debugfs interface Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:49:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20170926174946.GA1218@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20170926140714.18110.74689.stgit@scvm10.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170926140714.18110.74689.stgit-9QXIwq+3FY+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Dennis Dalessandro Cc: dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Sudeep Dutt , Sadanand Warrier , Scott Franco , Niranjana Vishwanathapura List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 07:08:37AM -0700, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Here are the other two patches for opa_vnic. This adds a debugfs interface and > that is why I'm sending it as a separate series apart from the rest of our > submissions. The goal is to support view/modify of the VESW port config. > > Patches can can also be found in my GitHub repo at: > https://github.com/ddalessa/kernel/tree/for-4.15 > > --- Can you elaborate more on the reasons why debugfs was chosen over more generic configuration tool? +DEBUGFS_FILE_OPS(vport_state); Maybe, I'm too biased with rdmatool, but I don't see many reasons to introduce debugfs for the ULP. Thanks --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlnKkxUACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKeDxRAAnQlvFZEmaRNgoyEELItXo6D45DR084v+3UE8YpPa/Lvu2W2vrz+nsoqT P27NHYSQKcfg/mM6h5IqO64nxc8OpRlWA8dQCz+E4JbuBzzb47EJSIlwqX+689OS WDJRIhyO6cWrs3zMfTQ4u5lcRNTNI+NSKq/Ka0tAWikW3JzFLJYrOCS2CDPuCmkr Y4ZQroJsxtWDzoB89I9x1H95/WtqTr699sL3W65PN6IcL6Ctl0mTIRCj5vaXStvu xqgaydk5R32hP4Rt3h3DYidrDrcjQfABXMFv9eEpfLiY/TF2+jqKIEnoePbpkTfl lfBwBeM2JNZIAEi64C0LvUkWPb2Z8SICoedTIE6rELqZGzu5Nffli99HERRtNpag LVn+MLS/xl++boODe3rEFyqnRyzqbWq/S4h1bMOz6GwdmBLsYqEoiOIUMIdoudFq xONaqGt7wfBrKGDp5T5y3v08evKTbhIp1icA18XonQqNCQG51fFGDT8YyrjNUTXZ mG6WWyTH+nM6nBjG0CPGDUQfWQPBzUI2MWi6MCLJVvwAeZcUQFol0f6qGLzkJuo4 +6fXRgY3DKCSjVQBCYrh/BZ/rFDD4ozvwMft8io15zezGLdTJrcFTRnuvBOaC+hs Lnk1RST5xiaeyP6yOnPQ1pQ844QdzPFcgVYamPJGuBWCi91suio= =RHmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html