linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] Describe events in a structured way via sysfs

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Message-Id: <1277192877.5025.9.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:47:57 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"eranian@...il.com" <eranian@...il.com>,
	"Gary.Mohr@...l.com" <Gary.Mohr@...l.com>,
	"arjan@...ux.intel.com" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@...ibm.com>,
	Carl Love <carll@...ibm.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc] Describe events in a structured way via sysfs

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 15:33 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 15:22 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> 
> > > > net/wlan0/events/
> > > > net/waln1/events/
> > > > ....
> > > > net/walnN/events/
> > > 
> > > That's not appropriate either though since you may have multiple network
> > > interfaces on the same hardware :)
> > 
> > Doesn't net/wlan0...wlanN mean multiple network interfaces on the same
> > hardware?
> 
> Yes, but the trace points aren't per network interface but rather per
> hardware piece.

So it can only trace the whole hardware piece rather than a specific
interface?

If yes, then will change to
- /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/wlan0/events/iwlwifi_dev_ioread32/
+ /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/events/iwlwifi_dev_ioread32/

> 
> johannes
> 

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