Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 08:21:59PM CEST, sfel...@gmail.com wrote: >On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:49 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> >> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:37:57 +0200 >> >>> I don't think that are much more cases like this. Therefore I think that >>> for this cases, debugfs might be a good way to expose debugging stats. >> >> Scott wanted to do similar things in rocker. DSA guys too. >> >> Every switch device is going to have some kind of hierarchy like >> this, it's not a unique situation. > >We've been able to get buy so far without a user-visible device for >the switch. The switch ports are represented by netdevs, so that's >easy. How can we create an object for the switch itself, so we can >attach common interfaces for the user to dump switch-level stats or >tables? Using another netdev doesn't seem right. Do we need a new >device class for switches, and then create some common tool/interfaces >for switch device class?
Switch object itselt would not help you to expose rocker internals. I don't think that you can find generic way, same for all drivers, to expose internal tables and stuff. That is hw specific. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
