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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clk: debug clock tree
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Do you mean a sysfs file which controls the output format? How about
just two different files? One can be clk-dump (machine readable) and
the other is clk-summary (human readable).

Regards,
Mike


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