Re: [RFC] [PATCH] DRM TTM Memory Manager patch

Ingo Oeser
2007-05-01T22:36:15Z

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