Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:37:46 +0000
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org] >> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:30 PM >> To: Rajesh Borundia; Shahed Shaikh; Jitendra Kalsaria; Sony Chacko; Dept-Eng >> Linux Driver >> Cc: netdev; linux-kernel >> Subject: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse >> >> I was doing a kernel-wide audit on all of the binary sysfs files, and noticed a >> metric ton of them in the qlcnic driver. >> >> So, any objection to me just deleting these entirely? Or, if they really are >> needed, can I just move them to debugfs, which is where I think they should >> have been from the beginning? > > Some applications are using these files, please move them to debugfs.
This is quite a mess, and I've complained about all of the crazy files created by qlcnic in the past.
debugfs is for things that do not create a ABI which the kernel has to maintain forever.
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