netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: hns3: Adds support of debugfs to HNS3 driver

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Message-ID: <F4CC6FACFEB3C54C9141D49AD221F7F93BFC8A64@FRAEML521-MBX.china.huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:06:19 +0000
From:   Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen)" <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        "lipeng (Y)" <lipeng321@...wei.com>,
        "mehta.salil@...src.net" <mehta.salil@...src.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: hns3: Adds support of debugfs to HNS3
 driver

> From: Jakub Kicinski [mailto:jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 10:30 PM
> To: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen) <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>;
> lipeng (Y) <lipeng321@...wei.com>; mehta.salil@...src.net;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Linuxarm
> <linuxarm@...wei.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: hns3: Adds support of debugfs to
> HNS3 driver
> 
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:18:37 +0000, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > This patchset adds support of debugfs to the HNS3 driver.
> >
> > Support has been added to query info related to below items:
> > 1. Queue related
> > 2. Flow Director
> > 3. TC config
> > 4. Transmit Module/Scheduler
> > 5. QoS pause
> > 6. QoS buffer
> > 7. QoS prio map
> 
> Please provide a more informative cover letter.
> 
> From a short glance it looks like you add a single debugfs file, which
> can be written to, and upon that write the driver will dump stuff into
> kernel logs.

That is correct. Do you foresee any problem with it or are we doing something
which is objectionable?

Salil.