netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtlwifi: Improve debugging by using debugfs

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:47:00 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
        Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@...ltek.com>,
        Birming Chiu <birming@...ltek.com>,
        Shaofu <shaofu@...ltek.com>, Steven Ting <steventing@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtlwifi: Improve debugging by using debugfs

On 08/24/2017 08:54 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> netdev frowns upon debugfs. You should try to keep this altogether,
> making it easy to throw away before the driver is moved out of
> staging.
> 
> You might want to look at ethtool -d. That will be accepted.

Andrew,

What is the problem with debugfs?

Please suggest which driver has the best example of an ethtool -d implementation 
that we might study.

The first version of the debugfs changes were sent to wireless-drivers on July 
2. Why are we first hearing of this objection nearly 2 months later?

Larry