From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics via debugfs Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150826.104906.9246591425074015.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20150826055215.GA2215@nanopsycho.orion> <20150825.230821.2162893312002303587.davem@davemloft.net> <20150826073757.GB2215@nanopsycho.orion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jiri@mellanox.com To: jiri@resnulli.us Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:36801 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754238AbbHZRtH (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:49:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150826073757.GB2215@nanopsycho.orion> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:37:57 +0200 > I don't think that are much more cases like this. Therefore I think that > for this cases, debugfs might be a good way to expose debugging stats. Scott wanted to do similar things in rocker. DSA guys too. Every switch device is going to have some kind of hierarchy like this, it's not a unique situation. So I don't buy the "this is a special situation" thing at all.