netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: dsa: add generic debugfs interface

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:53:32 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Egil Hjelmeland <privat@...l-hjelmeland.no>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Woojung Huh <Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: dsa: add generic debugfs interface

Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 09:17:38PM CEST, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com wrote:
>This patch series adds a generic debugfs interface for the DSA
>framework, so that all switch devices benefit from it, e.g. Marvell,
>Broadcom, Microchip or any other DSA driver.
>
>This is really convenient for debugging, especially CPU ports and DSA
>links which are not exposed to userspace as net device. This interface
>is currently the only way to easily inspect the hardware for such ports.
>
>With the patch series, any switch device user is able to query the
>hardware for the supported tagging protocol, the ports stats and
>registers, as well as their FDB, MDB and VLAN entries.

I see this overlaps a lot with DPIPE. Why won't you use that to expose
your hw state?