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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Raymond <draymond@foxvalley.net>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tty/serial: create debugfs interface for UART register tracing
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:58:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023083101-among-unrented-c0a7@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af06008a-f4d4-1c30-294a-b7af2d4cbc86@foxvalley.net>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:33:33PM -0600, Dan Raymond wrote:
> On 8/31/2023 12:08 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Warning: This email is from an unusual correspondent.
> > Warning: Make sure this is someone you trust.
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 02:59:01PM -0600, Dan Raymond wrote:
> >> Implement a UART register tracing facility using the debugfs.  This can be
> >> used as a "serial port sniffer" to monitor UART traffic and line settings
> >> with timestamps at microsecond granularity.  This can be useful for general
> >> serial port debugging or to debug the UART driver itself.
> > 
> >>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_debug.c | 530 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > My gosh. Why trace points and trace events can't be used for that?
> > 
> 
> I don't understand your post.  Are you saying there is already a way to
> trace UART register reads/writes without this patch?  Can you elaborate?

By adding trace points and trace events, instead of a custom api like
you did.  I asked you to look into this already :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-24 20:59 [PATCH v3] tty/serial: create debugfs interface for UART register tracing Dan Raymond
2023-08-25  8:06 ` Greg KH
2023-09-13  5:59   ` Dan Raymond
2023-08-31 18:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-08-31 18:33   ` Dan Raymond
2023-08-31 18:58     ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-08-31 22:59     ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-11 22:14       ` Dan Raymond
2023-09-11 22:53         ` Andy Shevchenko

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