Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:43:10 +0200 | From | Peter De Schrijver <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clk: debug clock tree |
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:01:31PM +0100, 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.
We already have the clk directory for an easy to parse version. So I think this one should be focused on being human readable.
Cheers,
Peter.
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