From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130725.140933.1460349218585474906.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130707002949.GA15822@kroah.com> <0EA5B226BC5C7B45A71BF612AA8A019E355A3BD4@AVMB1.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com, shahed.shaikh@qlogic.com, jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com, Linux-Driver@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: sony.chacko@qlogic.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:49675 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754781Ab3GYVJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:09:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0EA5B226BC5C7B45A71BF612AA8A019E355A3BD4@AVMB1.qlogic.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Sony Chacko Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:37:46 +0000 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org] >> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:30 PM >> To: Rajesh Borundia; Shahed Shaikh; Jitendra Kalsaria; Sony Chacko; Dept-Eng >> Linux Driver >> Cc: netdev; linux-kernel >> Subject: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse >> >> I was doing a kernel-wide audit on all of the binary sysfs files, and noticed a >> metric ton of them in the qlcnic driver. >> >> So, any objection to me just deleting these entirely? Or, if they really are >> needed, can I just move them to debugfs, which is where I think they should >> have been from the beginning? > > Some applications are using these files, please move them to debugfs. This is quite a mess, and I've complained about all of the crazy files created by qlcnic in the past. debugfs is for things that do not create a ABI which the kernel has to maintain forever.