Re: [PATCH 13/14] Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc

Sohil Mehta
2022-11-01T23:00:03Z

On 11/1/2022 3:48 PM, Joseph, Jithu wrote:
> The testname would be inferred based the sysfs file context (the<N> in /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_<N>/current_batch) from which the operation is triggered.
>
> Meaning if the user writes to /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_0/current_batch it would look for ff-mm-ss.scan and if they write to
> /sys/devices/virtual/misc/intel_ifs_2/current_batch it would look for ff-mm-ss.<test_type_2>
>

So intel_ifs_<N> corresponds to <test_type> i.e. intel_ifs_0 maps to .scan

Is the N to test_type mapping visible to the user somewhere? If not, how
would the user infer that?

Would it be useful to name the misc device as intel_ifs_<test_type>?