netdev - Re: [NET_NEXT RFC PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: added reg

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Date:	Wed, 9 May 2012 20:54:59 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@...el.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET_NEXT RFC PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: added reg_ops file to debugfs

On Thu, 10 May 2012 01:18:10 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:14 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:09:50 -0700
> > Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@...el.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Added the reg_ops file to debugfs with commands to read and write
> > > a register to give users the ability to read and write individual
> > > registers on the fly.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@...el.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c |  112 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > 
> > Aren't these registers already in ethtool?
> 
> ethtool register access is read-only and would be very heavy-weight for
> interactive debugging.  Not sure this is the best interface to
> read/write registers, but it's certainly not redundant.

For debugging couldn't you could mmap the PCI  space? That would allow writing
a user level debugger for the hardware.
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