From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753113AbaKGTa4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:30:56 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43063 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752783AbaKGTaz (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:30:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:30:54 -0800 From: Greg KH To: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk, pratikp@codeaurora.org, varshney@ti.com, Al.Grant@arm.com, jonas.svennebring@avagotech.com, james.king@linaro.org, kaixu.xia@linaro.org, marcin.jabrzyk@gmail.com, r.sengupta@samsung.com, robbelibobban@gmail.com, patches@linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/12] coresight: add CoreSight core layer framework Message-ID: <20141107193054.GB29311@kroah.com> References: <1415038066-22423-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <1415038066-22423-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <20141107193016.GA29311@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141107193016.GA29311@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 11:30:16AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:07:35AM -0700, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org wrote: > > From: Pratik Patel > > > > CoreSight components are compliant with the ARM CoreSight > > architecture specification and can be connected in various > > topologies to suit a particular SoC tracing needs. These trace > > components can generally be classified as sources, links and > > sinks. Trace data produced by one or more sources flows through > > the intermediate links connecting the source to the currently > > selected sink. > > > > The CoreSight framework provides an interface for the CoreSight trace > > drivers to register themselves with. It's intended to build up a > > topological view of the CoreSight components and configure the > > correct serie of components on user input via sysfs. > > > > For eg., when enabling a source, the framework builds up a path > > consisting of all the components connecting the source to the > > currently selected sink(s) and enables all of them. > > > > The framework also supports switching between available sinks > > and provides status information to user space applications > > through the debugfs interface. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pratik Patel > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier > > You don't seem to document the sysfs files you create here in > Documentation/ABI/ anywhere in the series. Can you fix that up? > > Other than that minor nit, this looks good to me. Feel free to take it > through some random ARM tree. Wait, did you want me to take this through my tree? If so, I'll be glad to do so, I can't remember what we talked about here... thanks, greg k-h