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SubjectRe: [rfc] Describe events in a structured way via sysfs
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On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:59 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:25 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:34 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 16:55 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > >
> > > > 21. iwlwifi_io events
> > > > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/wlan0/events/iwlwifi_dev_ioread32/
> > > > ...
> > > > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/wlan0/events/iwlwifi_dev_ucode_event/
> > >
> > >
> > > That doesn't work, you could have multiple PCI devices in your system.
> >
> > Understood. This is just a "demo".
> >
> > Actually, I mean
> >
> > net/wlan0/events/
> > net/waln1/events/
> > ....
> > net/walnN/events/
>
> That's not appropriate either though since you may have multiple network
> interfaces on the same hardware :)

Doesn't net/wlan0...wlanN mean multiple network interfaces on the same
hardware?

If my understanding is wrong, would you show me an example in sysfs?

>
> > > > 23. skb events
> > > > /sys/class/net/events/kfree_skb/
> > > > /sys/class/net/events/skb_copy_datagram_iovec/
> > >
> > > > 25. mac80211 events
> > > > /sys/class/net/events/drv_start/
> > > > ...
> > > > /sys/class/net/events/stop_queue
> > >
> > > It doesn't really seem right to mix all these.
> >
> > Well, agree, skb events are totally different with mac80211 events.
> > Any idea?
>
> I suppose the most appropriate thing would
> be /sys/class/ieee80211/phyN/events/... for almost all of them.

Good idea.

Thanks,
Lin Ming

>
> johannes
>



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