On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:44:15PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Thomas Wood <thomas.wood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 19 May 2014 15:13, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Wood <thomas.wood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Wood <thomas.wood@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> The commit-msg lacks any discussion why this change is done. What is > >> the reason to do that? Isn't the kernel-command-line enough? Why is > >> this a regular feature instead of a debugfs attribute? > > > > > > It was intended as a debug/testing feature to allow tests in > > intel-gpu-tools to enable or disable connectors: > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2014-May/045556.html > > > > > > I'll update the commit message for the next version of the patch. > > Thanks! But please make it a debugfs feature, if possible. We > shouldn't expose interfaces in sysfs that aren't part of the core API. > Note that this might require you to encode the connector-name in the > debugfs-attribute-name. Imo having the read and write side in completely different parts doesn't make a lot of sense. Hence I think doing this in sysfs is ok. Also users might want to frob this for testing, and usually debugfs is a bit further away on most systems. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
