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SubjectRe: driver model, duplicate names question
On 07/16/2013 12:32 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:33:03PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
>>>> +Example Sys-FS Interface
>>>> +
>>>> +/sys/class/power_cap/intel-rapl
>>>> +├── package-0
>>>> +│ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ ├── constraint-1
>>>> +│ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ ├── core
>>>> +│ │ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ │ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ │ └── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ ├── dram
>>>> +│ │ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ │ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ │ └── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ ├── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ └── max_power_range_uw
>>>> +├── package-1
>>>> +│ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ ├── constraint-1
>>>> +│ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ ├── core
>>>> +│ │ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ │ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ │ └── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ ├── dram
>>>> +│ │ ├── constraint-0
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── name
>>>> +│ │ │ ├── power_limit_uw
>>>> +│ │ │ └── time_window_us
>>>> +│ │ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ │ └── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ ├── energy_uj
>>>> +│ ├── max_energy_range_uj
>>>> +│ └── max_power_range_uw
>>>> +├── power
>>>> +│ ├── async
>>>> +│ ├── autosuspend_delay_ms
>>>> +│ ├── control
>>>> +│ ├── runtime_active_kids
>>>> +│ ├── runtime_active_time
>>>> +│ ├── runtime_enabled
>>>> +│ ├── runtime_status
>>>> +│ ├── runtime_suspended_time
>>>> +│ └── runtime_usage
>>>> +├── subsystem -> ../../../../class/power_cap
>>>> +└── uevent
>>> Ick. Rewrite this to use a bus and you should be fine, right? Don't
>>> use a class, a class is only to be used if you have a device that is a
>>> specific "type of thing". Like a tty device, it is a class, as lots of
>>> different "real" devices can have tty ports on them (usb, pci, pcmcia,
>>> platform, etc.)
>>>
>>> Rethink this using a bus and see if that solves your issues. You get a
>>> hierarchy with that. And you can have different "types" of devices on
>>> your bus, making it easy to tell the difference between a "package" and
>>> a "constraint".
>>>
>>> Does that help?
>> I will experiment your suggestion. I see this class analogous to
>> "/sys/class/thermal",
>> , where the thermal class provides a set of consistent interface for all
>> thermal devices.
> But thermal devices are not "real" at all. There are just a number of
> "cooling devices" on a virtual bus and not attached to any type of a
> real device at all.
>
> There's also no hierarchy that I can see with the thermal class, but you
> want to have this, so you will have to do something different because
> classes do not have hierarchies.
>
> So try using a device and a bus and see if that helps out. If not,
> please let me know.
Experimented by using a device and a bus. As your initial mail pointed
out, it still fails.
It will try to create symlink to /sys/bus/BUSTYPE/devices/, which will
prevent duplicate names.
Someone suggested to do like usb by creating file system entries, which
will require me to
wear a body armour to post upstream for review.

So I think the solution is to use prevent duplicate names. So in the
above example of sys-fs:

"package-0" may be called power_zone#, with attribute "name" =
"package_0". Its children can
be called power_zone#:#. I will still use parent child relationships
during device_register.
For constraints, I will be using attributes like constraint_0_name,
constraint_0_power_limit etc. under each power_zone.
Hope this is an acceptable solution.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

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