Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: dsa: add generic debugfs interface

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@savoirfairelinux.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Egil Hjelmeland <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no>,
	John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
	Woojung Huh <Woojung.Huh@microchip.com>,
	Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>,
	Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>,
	Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>,
	mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] net: dsa: add generic debugfs interface
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:08:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170828200834.GA1870@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170828195332.GB1950@nanopsycho.orion>

> I see this overlaps a lot with DPIPE. Why won't you use that to expose
> your hw state?

We took a look at dpipe and i talked to you about using it for this
sort of thing at netconf/netdev. But dpipe has issues displaying the
sort of information we have. I never figured out how to do two
dimensional tables. The output of the dpipe command is pretty
unreadable. A lot of the information being dumped here is not about
the data pipe, etc.

There is a lot of pushback on debugfs for individual drivers. As i
said recently to somebody, debugfs is a bit of a wild west. When
designing this code, we thought about that. This debugfs is not at the
driver level. It is at the DSA level. All DSA drivers will benefit
from this code, and all DSA drivers will get the same information
exposed in debugfs. It is generic, well defined and structured, with
respect to DSA.

	Andrew