Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net/ncsi: Add debugging infrastructurre

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:28:26 -0700

On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 12:46 +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> This creates procfs directories as NCSI debugging infrastructure.
> With the patch applied, We will see below procfs directories. Every
> NCSI package and channel has one corresponding directory. Other than
> presenting the NCSI topology, No real function has been achieved
> through these procfs directories so far.

/proc is meant to be stable.

Why not use debugfs?

>      /proc/ncsi/eth0
>      /proc/ncsi/eth0/p0
>      /proc/ncsi/eth0/p0/c0
>      /proc/ncsi/eth0/p0/c1