Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] l2tp: Add ppp device name to L2TP ppp session data

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:29:14 -0700

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:17:46 +0100
James Chapman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> When dumping L2TP PPP sessions using /proc/net/l2tp, get
> the assigned PPP device name from PPP using ppp_dev_name().
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Chapman <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
>

Why is this a necessary API?
Why not put it in debugfs if just a debugging tool?