Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2018 23:43:46 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] net: hns3: Adds support of debugfs to HNS3 driver |
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> 3. Debugfs looks more unstructured unlike sysfs. Is there any > de-facto standard of the user-api or drivers are allowed to > use it in any way to expose the information from kernel.
Hi Salil
You don't really have a user api using debugfs, because debugfs is unstable. Anything can change at any time. Any user tools which use debugfs can be expected to break at any time as the information in debugfs changes. debugfs is for debug, not to export an API. And in production systems, it is often not mounted.
As much as possible, you are recommended to use existing APIs, ethtool, devlink, etc.
Andrew
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