On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:46:08AM -0800, Bernie Thompson wrote: > Add sysfs controls for edid and performance metrics > > There are 8 new files exposed in /sys/class/graphics/fb* All new sysfs files will need a Documentation/ABI/ patch as well to explain the files. > > edid - returns 128 byte edid blog, suitable for parsing with parse-edid > metrics_bytes_identical > metrics_bytes_rendered > metrics_bytes_sent > metrics_cpu_kcycles_used These are all single value files, which is fine. > metrics_misc This isn't. sysfs files are "one value per file". If you want to do something else, like this file, I suggest using debugfs instead. > and metrics_reset, which resets all perf metrics to zero Actually, why not use debugfs for all of these files? They aren't really necessary for any user or tool, and are only a debugging thing. That's what debugfs was created for :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
