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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.