Re: qlcnic binary sysfs file abuse

From: Sony Chacko <redacted>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:37:46 +0000

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@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.