On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 02:39:21PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2023, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote: > > The documentation for struct drm_minor already states this, but that's > > not always that easy to find. > > > > Also due to historical reasons we still have the minor-centric (like > > drm_debugfs_create_files), but since this is now getting fixed we can > > put a few more pointers in place as to how this should be done > > ideally. > > Care to expand on the vague "this is now getting fixed" part a bit? > > I've seen the "Introduce debugfs device-centered functions" series from > Maíra, but that doesn't solve everything. Not everything can use > drm_debugfs_add_file().
Yeah this is only step 1 of the entire project, there's still more in the todo entry: https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/gpu/todo.html#clean-up-the-debugfs-support We need the same trick on the connector and crtc too. I think with those we should have most things covered? -Daniel > > BR, > Jani. > > > > > Motvated by some discussion with Rodrigo on irc about how drm/xe > > should lay out its sysfs interfaces. > > > > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]> > > Cc: Wambui Karuga <[email protected]> > > Cc: Maíra Canal <[email protected]> > > Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]> > > Cc: Melissa Wen <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > > --- > > include/drm/drm_device.h | 17 +++++++++++++++-- > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_device.h b/include/drm/drm_device.h > > index 9923c7a6885e..b40e07e004ee 100644 > > --- a/include/drm/drm_device.h > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_device.h > > @@ -87,10 +87,23 @@ struct drm_device { > > */ > > void *dev_private; > > > > - /** @primary: Primary node */ > > + /** > > + * @primary: > > + * > > + * Primary node. Drivers should not interact with this > > + * directly. debugfs interface can be registered with > > + * drm_debugfs_add_file(), and sysfs should be directly added on the > > + * hardwire struct device @dev. > > + */ > > struct drm_minor *primary; > > > > - /** @render: Render node */ > > + /** > > + * @render: > > + * > > + * Render node. Drivers should not interact with this directly ever. > > + * Drivers should not expose any additional interfaces in debugfs or > > + * sysfs on thise node. > > + */ > > struct drm_minor *render; > > > > /** > > -- > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
