netdev - Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics via debugfs

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Message-ID: <20150827064029.GI2228@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:40:29 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	sfeldma@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com,
	eladr@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/3] mlxsw: expose EMAD transactions statistics
 via debugfs

Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 08:36:03AM CEST, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:27:04 +0200
>
>> I'm not saying it is not possible, it certainly is. But I think that
>> for example rocker internals have no value to default user, he
>> should not care and he cannot find out what is going on there
>> without knowledge or rocker.c code. The question is, do we need some
>> standard interface to expose random debugging data? I don't think
>> so, I think that debugfs is exactly the tool to be used in that
>> case.
>
>If it is only interesting to rocker.c maintainer, he can keep a local
>patch he applies when he needs such a facility.
>
>This discussion is becomming circular.
>
>If it's useful, it needs a well defined interface.
>
>If it's not useful, it doesn't belong in the tree.
>
>Therefore, debugfs is useless.

Fair enough.
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