linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Export new 'graph.dot' file in debugfs

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:11:32 +0000
From:   Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     Martin Povišer <povik+lin@...ebit.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Export new 'graph.dot' file in debugfs

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 05:10:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:11:48PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:
> > > On 22. 8. 2022, at 15:04, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:38:09PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:
> 
> > >> simply having a ‘graph.dot’ at hand, especially since it requires
> > >> little code. (Although sure there’s the danger of it growing.)
> 
> > > I'm also worried about people going in and wanting other more tool
> > > specific formats adding, if we didn't have anything at all it'd be one
> > > thing but we do have something.
> 
> > Sure, although I would argue DOT is by a large margin the standard
> > format to represent graphs in.
> 
> Well, the debugfs stuff there is more a general tool for introspecting
> the current DAPM state than it is indended to draw a pretty picture.
> When I wrote it the scale of the devices I was working with was such
> that I'm not usre a full graph would've been terribly useful, and
> there's even larger devices since then (though also a lot of systems
> like yours which do use very much smaller devices).

I still seem to have a copy of Dimitris's tool lying around
(attached), yes apologies we don't seem to have that publicly hosted
anymore at some point it feels like we need to look at what was
lost when the older Wolfson stuff was shutdown.

Thanks,
Charles

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