netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] rocker: add debugfs support to dump internal tables

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:10:31 -0400
From:	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <sfeldma@...il.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <andrew@...n.ch>, <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] rocker: add debugfs support to dump internal
 tables

David,

On 08/18/2015 04:47 PM, David Miller wrote:
> I see some drivers where the foo_debugfs.c file is larger than the rest
> of the driver.  Once people start using it, it's like crack, and they
> dump every single debugging widget they found useful at some point into
> there.
> 
> This is not what we want.  Most things I see in debugfs support was
> probably useful for debugging one particular bug but then it was never
> really useful again in the future.  Those kinds of things can be done
> locally in someone's tree.
> 
> I often see various kinds of "statistics" ending up in these things,
> or register dumps, both of which are 'ethtool' or similar material.
Very late to this discussion, but I need to port some of the internal code
to display the content of a ALE (Address Learning Engine) table maintained
in hardwareat L2 layer. Currently I have a sysfs implementation that dumps
information like below.

root@...-evm:~# cat /sys/devices/platform/soc/2620110.netcp/ale_table
index 0, raw: 000007fc d000ffff ffffffff, type: addr(1), addr: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, mcstate: f(3), port mask: 1ff, no super
index 1, raw: 00000000 10000800 28329a1c, type: addr(1), addr: 08:00:28:32:9a:1c, uctype: persistent(0), port: 0
index 2, raw: 000007fc d0000100 5e000001, type: addr(1), addr: 01:00:5e:00:00:01, mcstate: f(3), port mask: 1ff, no super
index 19, raw: 00000004 d000d4be d93db6c1, type: addr(1), addr: d4:be:d9:3d:b6:c1, uctype: touched(3), port: 1

What is the available interface in kernel to expose this information
to user space as debugfs is not suggested based on this thread?

-- 
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone