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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jiri@resnulli.us
Cc: sfeldma@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@mellanox.com,
	eladr@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jiri@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics via debugfs
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:36:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150826.233603.681080899557993733.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827062704.GE2228@nanopsycho.orion>

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:27:04 +0200

> I'm not saying it is not possible, it certainly is. But I think that
> for example rocker internals have no value to default user, he
> should not care and he cannot find out what is going on there
> without knowledge or rocker.c code. The question is, do we need some
> standard interface to expose random debugging data? I don't think
> so, I think that debugfs is exactly the tool to be used in that
> case.

If it is only interesting to rocker.c maintainer, he can keep a local
patch he applies when he needs such a facility.

This discussion is becomming circular.

If it's useful, it needs a well defined interface.

If it's not useful, it doesn't belong in the tree.

Therefore, debugfs is useless.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24 14:45 [patch net-next 0/3] mlxsw: small driver update Jiri Pirko
2015-08-24 14:45 ` [patch net-next 1/3] mlxsw: Remove duplicate included header Jiri Pirko
2015-08-24 14:45 ` [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics via debugfs Jiri Pirko
2015-08-25 21:25   ` David Miller
2015-08-26  5:52     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-26  6:08       ` David Miller
2015-08-26  7:37         ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-26 17:49           ` David Miller
2015-08-26 18:21             ` Scott Feldman
2015-08-26 18:36               ` Florian Fainelli
2015-08-27  0:26               ` David Miller
2015-08-27  5:40               ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  6:01                 ` David Miller
2015-08-27  6:27                   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-27  6:36                     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-08-27  6:40                       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-09-16 13:14                         ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-08-24 14:45 ` [patch net-next 3/3] mlxsw: adjust log messages level in __mlxsw_emad_transmit Jiri Pirko

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