[PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: trace: Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace

Hao Zhang quic_hazha at quicinc.com
Mon Mar 27 18:45:28 PDT 2023


Hi Greg,

On 3/27/2023 5:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 02:16:08PM +0800, Hao Zhang wrote:
>> Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace under trace/coresight.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang <quic_hazha at quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>   .../trace/coresight/coresight-dummy.rst       | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-dummy.rst
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-dummy.rst b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-dummy.rst
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..819cabab8623
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-dummy.rst
>> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
>> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +
>> +=============================
>> +Coresight Dummy Trace Module
>> +=============================
>> +
>> +    :Author:   Hao Zhang <quic_hazha at quicinc.com>
>> +    :Date:     March 2023
>> +
>> +Introduction
>> +---------------------------
>> +
>> +Coresight Dummy Trace Module is for the specific devices that HLOS don't
>> +have permission to access or configure. Such as Coresight sink EUD, some
>> +TPDMs etc. So there need driver to register dummy devices as Coresight
>> +devices. Provide Coresight API for dummy device operations, such as
>> +enabling and disabling dummy devices. Build the Coresight path for dummy
>> +sink or dummy source for debugging.
>> +
>> +Sysfs files and directories
>> +---------------------------
>> +
>> +Root: ``/sys/bus/coresight/devices/dummy<N>``
> 
> sysfs files are documented in Documentation/ABI/ not in random .rst
> files, sorry.  Please use the correct format described there, not a
> random one like this :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks for your review, I will correct the format in the next version of 
patch.

Thanks,
Hao



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