linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

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Message-Id: <200705020036.38322.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 00:36:36 +0200
From:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
To:	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Hellstr?m" <thomas@...gstengraphics.com>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"Eric Anholt" <eric@...olt.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

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.


Regards

Ingo Oeser
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