netdev - Re: [net-next 04/14] i40e: dump VF information in debugfs

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:16:12 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "nhorman@...hat.com" <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        "sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
        "jogreene@...hat.com" <jogreene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 04/14] i40e: dump VF information in debugfs

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Jeff Kirsher
<jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
>
> Dump some internal state about VFs through debugfs. This provides
> information not available with 'ip link show'.

such as?

donnwantobethedebugfspolice, but still, in the 2-3 times we tried to
push debugfs to MLNX NIC
drivers, Dave disallowed that, and lately the switch team even went
further and deleted that
portion of the mlxsw driver -- all to all,  I don't see much point for
these type of changes, thoughts?