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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clk: debug clock tree
On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:31 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 09:27 AM, Mike Turquette wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>> Adds debug file "clock_tree" in /sys/kernel/debug/clk dir.
>>> It helps to view all the clock registered in tree format.
>>>
>> Prashant,
>>
>> Thanks for submitting this. We've been talking about having a single
>> file for representing the tree for some time.
>>
>> Regarding the output format had you considered using a well known
>> format which can be parsed using well known parsing libs? This avoids
>> needing a custom parser just for this one file. JSON springs to mind
>> as something lightweight and well-understood.
> One advantage of the format below is that it's very easily
> human-readable, and it's not too hard to parse (although I guess you'd
> have to parse the indent level to get parent/child relation, which would
> suck a bit). Is there room to provide both? Otherwise, I guess the
> kernel could include a script to convert from JSON/whatever into the
> format below.
>
>>> For example:
>>> clock enable_cnt prepare_cnt rate
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> i2s0_sync 0 0 24000000
>>> spdif_in_sync 0 0 24000000
>>> spdif_mux 0 0 24000000
>>> spdif 0 0 24000000
>>> spdif_doubler 0 0 48000000
>>> spdif_div 0 0 48000000
>>> spdif_2x 0 0 48000000
>

Even I think that output must be easily human-readable. How about adding
sysfs to switch between human-readable and machine-readable format?
I will try come up with a implementation.



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