Re: [PATCH v5] dynamic_debug: allow to work if debugfs is disabled

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 12:05 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> With the realization that having debugfs enabled on "production" systems
> is generally not a good idea, debugfs is being disabled from more and
> more platforms over time.  However, the functionality of dynamic
> debugging still is needed at times, and since it relies on debugfs for
> its user api, having debugfs disabled also forces dynamic debug to be
> disabled.
> 
> To get around this, also create the "control" file for dynamic_debug in
> procfs.  This allows people turn on debugging as needed at runtime for
> individual driverfs and subsystems.
> 
> Reported-by: many different companies
> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v5: as many people asked for it, now enable the control file in both
>     debugfs and procfs at the same time.

So now there can be differences in the two control files
and these are readable files are sometimes parsed by
scripts.

It'd be better to figure out how to soft link the files.