Greg, On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:34:54PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Here's a patch against my current tree that gets the perfmon code > building and hopefully working. > Thanks for your quick help.
> Note, it needs the kobject_create_and_register() patch which is in my > tree, but I do not think it made it to -mm yet. The next -mm cycle > should have it. > > Also, the sysfs usage in the perfmon code is quite strange and not > documented at all. Yes, there is a little bit in the documentation > about what a few of the files do, but there are _way_ more files and > even directories being created under /sys/kernel/perfmon/ that are not > documented at all here. > The full documentation for /sys/kernel/perfmon is in Documentation/perfmon2.txt > If you document this stuff, I think I can clean up your sysfs code a > lot, making things simpler, easier to extend, and easier to understand. > But as it is, I don't want to break anything as it's totally unknown how > this stuff is supposed to work... > I certainly welcome your help. > Hint, use the Documentation/ABI directory to document your sysfs > interfaces, that is what it is there for... > I will move the description from perfmon2.txt to its own file in ABI/testing. -- -Stephane - 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/
