From: "Mintz, Yuval" <yuval.mi...@cavium.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:57:08 +0000
> I agree this surely isn't *our* convention, but for scsi using debugfs > [or sysfs] is a common practice for debug purposes. > > Also, our HW debug capabilities are highly-customable, and I want to > have the ability to configure those on the fly [E.g., dynamically > configuring various HW events to be recorded]. > Each such configuration involves multiple register writes and reads > according to user provided inputs. > I don't really see how to generalize the information collection in a way > that would benefit anyone else. That's basically what everyone says who slaps random crap into debugfs. >> For your inhouse debugging, you should have oot >> patch to expose whatever you need. > > I don't want in-house debugging capabilities - > I want field debug capabilities. Then it has to use a portable, well defined, set of interfaces.
