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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index b2c6aaf1edf2..1f8a5ebe188e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -508,17 +508,18 @@ 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. + +- Improve late-register debugfs by rolling out the same debugfs pre-register + infrastructure for connector and crtc too. That way, the drivers won't need to + split their setup code into init and register anymore. - 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 +528,6 @@ 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@gmail.com/ - Contact: Daniel Vetter Level: Intermediate |