Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Add debugfs support

[John Stultz]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:40 PM Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Add a top-level "clocksource" directory to debugfs. For each clocksource
> registered with the system, a subdirectory will be added with attributes
> that can be queried to obtain information about the clocksource.
>

Curious, what's the need/planned use for this?  I know in the past
folks have tried to get timekeeping internals exported to userland so
they could create their own parallel userland timekeeping system,
which I worry is a poor idea.

thanks
-john