On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: > The switch has registers which are useful for debugging issues: debugfs is not particularly likes. Please try to find other means where possible. Memory usage fits nicely into devlink. See mv88e6xxx which exports the ATU fill for example. Are trace registers counters? > +static int hellcreek_debugfs_init(struct hellcreek *hellcreek) > +{ > + struct dentry *file; > + > + hellcreek->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(hellcreek->dev), > + NULL); > + if (!hellcreek->debug_dir) > + return -ENOMEM; Just a general comment. You should not check the return value from any debugfs call, since it is totally optional. It will also do the right thing if the previous call has failed. There are numerous emails from GregKH about this. Andrew