netdev - Re: [net-next 04/14] i40e: dump VF information in debugfs

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Message-Id: <20170421.141224.1507476820517003604.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:12:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mitch.a.williams@...el.com
Cc:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com, gerlitz.or@...il.com,
        jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com, jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 04/14] i40e: dump VF information in debugfs

From: "Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:25:03 +0000

> I'm not adding backdoor hooks to do naughty things, I'm just (very
> slightly) enhancing what's already there.

I'm not going to drop this series because of this.

I'm just sounding the warning that I probably have to start pushing
back harder in the future because seriously.. debugfs is not deployed
production and in fact a lot of people disable it for security
reasons.

Even tracing got out of debugfs for this reason.