On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:36:36AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > - what's with the /proc interface? Don't add new proc code for > > > non-process related things. This should all go into sysfs > > > somewhere. And yes, I know /proc/dri/ is there today, but don't add > > > new stuff please. > > > > Well we should move all that stuff to sysfs, but we have all the > > infrastructure for publishing this stuff under /proc/dri and adding > > new files doesn't take a major amount, as much as I appreciate sysfs, > > it isn't suitable for this sort of information dump, the whole one > > value per file is quite useless to provide this sort of information > > which is uni-directional for users to send to us for debugging without > > have to install some special tool to join all the values into one > > place.. and I don't think drmfs is the answer either... or maybe it > > is.... > > Ok, what about debugfs then? If it is just for debugging blobs -> debugfs, > if it is crucial for operation -> sysfs and representation of one value > per file.
You beat me too it :) Yes, this is _exactly_ what debugfs is for, in fact, it will probably make your code a bit smaller to use it instead of /proc. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
