linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: clk: describe userspace debugging facilities

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Message-ID: <f59843385d8e491eb1695741141b8a2b.sboyd@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:11:48 -0800
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>, Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
Cc: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clk: describe userspace debugging facilities

Quoting Yao Zi (2024-11-18 11:25:27)
> Starting from commit
> 03111b1088f1 ("clk: Add support for enabling/disabling clocks from debugfs"),
> it's possible to operate clocks from userspace through debugfs for
> testing purpose. This feature isn't provided as a Kconfig but rather a
> macro in source for security consideration, thus is hard to find.
> 
> Let's document the macro to ease everyone's life of clock debugging.

Thanks for the patch. I don't want to advertise this anymore than it
already is though so let's skip this patch.