[PATCH] staging: rtlwifi: Improve debugging by using debugfs

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Fri Aug 25 13:47:00 UTC 2017


On 08/24/2017 08:54 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> netdev frowns upon debugfs. You should try to keep this altogether,
> making it easy to throw away before the driver is moved out of
> staging.
> 
> You might want to look at ethtool -d. That will be accepted.

Andrew,

What is the problem with debugfs?

Please suggest which driver has the best example of an ethtool -d implementation 
that we might study.

The first version of the debugfs changes were sent to wireless-drivers on July 
2. Why are we first hearing of this objection nearly 2 months later?

Larry


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