From: Sony Chacko <sony.cha...@qlogic.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:37:46 +0000
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] >> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:30 PM >> To: Rajesh Borundia; Shahed Shaikh; Jitendra Kalsaria; Sony Chacko; Dept-Eng >> Linux Driver >> Cc: netdev; linux-kernel >> Subject: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse >> >> I was doing a kernel-wide audit on all of the binary sysfs files, and >> noticed a >> metric ton of them in the qlcnic driver. >> >> So, any objection to me just deleting these entirely? Or, if they really are >> needed, can I just move them to debugfs, which is where I think they should >> have been from the beginning? > > Some applications are using these files, please move them to debugfs. This is quite a mess, and I've complained about all of the crazy files created by qlcnic in the past. debugfs is for things that do not create a ABI which the kernel has to maintain forever. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
