Messages in this thread | | | From | Salil Mehta <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: hns3: Add support of debugfs interface to HNS3 driver | Date | Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:16:06 +0000 |
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Hi Andrew,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch] > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2017 5:36 PM > To: Mintz, Yuval > Cc: Salil Mehta; davem@davemloft.net; Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen); huangdaode; > lipeng (Y); mehta.salil.lnk@gmail.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux- > kernel@vger.kernel.org; Linuxarm > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: hns3: Add support of debugfs > interface to HNS3 driver > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:51:57PM +0000, Mintz, Yuval wrote: > > > This adds the support of the debugfs interface to the driver for > debugging > > > purposes. > > > > > +const struct hclge_support_cmd support_cmd[] = { > > > + {"send cmd", 8, hclge_dbg_send, > > > + "opcode flag data0 data1 data2 data3 data4 data5"}, > > > + {"help", 4, hclge_dbg_usage, "no option"}, }; > > > > Is there an actual description of what this does? Or is it simply a > huge backdoor? > > It looks like a huge backdoor to the chip. > > It is O.K. to have such a patch internally for your own development > work, but it should not be submitted for mainline. > > NACK > > Andrew I will drop this debugfs patch for now.
Thanks Salil
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