[PATCH v3 6/6] drm/todo: update the debugfs clean up task

From: Maíra Canal
Date: Wed Dec 07 2022 - 08:25:12 EST


The structs drm_debugfs_info and drm_debugfs_entry introduced a new
debugfs structure to DRM, centered on drm_device instead of drm_minor.
Therefore, remove the tasks related to create a new device-centered
debugfs structure and add a new task to replace the use of
drm_debugfs_create_files() for the use of drm_debugfs_add_file() and
drm_debugfs_add_files().

Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index b2c6aaf1edf2..f64abf69f341 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -508,17 +508,14 @@ Clean up the debugfs support

There's a bunch of issues with it:

-- The drm_info_list ->show() function doesn't even bother to cast to the drm
- structure for you. This is lazy.
+- Convert drivers to support the drm_debugfs_add_files() function instead of
+ the drm_debugfs_create_files() function.

- We probably want to have some support for debugfs files on crtc/connectors and
maybe other kms objects directly in core. There's even drm_print support in
the funcs for these objects to dump kms state, so it's all there. And then the
->show() functions should obviously give you a pointer to the right object.

-- The drm_info_list stuff is centered on drm_minor instead of drm_device. For
- anything we want to print drm_device (or maybe drm_file) is the right thing.
-
- The drm_driver->debugfs_init hooks we have is just an artifact of the old
midlayered load sequence. DRM debugfs should work more like sysfs, where you
can create properties/files for an object anytime you want, and the core
@@ -527,8 +524,6 @@ There's a bunch of issues with it:
this (together with the drm_minor->drm_device move) would allow us to remove
debugfs_init.

-Previous RFC that hasn't landed yet: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200513114130.28641-2-wambui.karugax@xxxxxxxxx/
-
Contact: Daniel Vetter

Level: Intermediate
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