linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] staging: unisys: move uislib/platform proc entry to debugfs

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 22:57:08 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	"Romer, Benjamin M" <Benjamin.Romer@...sys.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	*S-Par-Maintainer <SParMaintainer@...sys.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] staging: unisys: move uislib/platform proc entry to
 debugfs

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:42:22AM -0500, Romer, Benjamin M wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 09:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Also, why are these entries moving to debugfs at all?  Why are they
> > needed?  Who will use them?  Are tools relying on them to be there?
> 
> The tuning entries are sometimes used to help adjust the behavior of our
> IO service partitions for better performance.

That sounds like it really belongs in sysfs instead of debugfs.

regards,
dan carpenter

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