Re: [RFC PATCH v1 37/40] metag: Various sysfs drivers

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On 09/11/12 14:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2012, James Hogan wrote:
>>
>> On 31/10/12 19:30, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:14:18PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
>>>> Add various Meta specific sysfs drivers.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> As you are creating new sysfs files, please also create new
>>> Documentation/ABI/ files describing what those sysfs files do at the
>>> same time.
>>
>> Good point, I'll make sure Documentation is added.
>>
> 
> While I haven't looked at the contents of these files in much detail,
> I suspect that they are not actually sysfs material at all. Anything
> related to performance counters should probably go into "perf".
> 
> You can also have your own debugfs directories if that is not a good
> fit, but when these are mainly debugging helps, debugfs seems more
> appropriate than sysfs.

Yes, I'm planning on dropping these from the core patchset as we never
use them ourselves so they're not a priority.

Thanks
James

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