[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/spufs: provide context debug file

[Jeremy Kerr]

Hi Arnd,

> I'm still unhappy about this patch, because I think this is the
> kind of information that should never be part of a public interface.
> Much of the information in there is very specific to the
> implementation, so it will be very hard to maintain ABI stability for
> this one, and I assume doing that was not Lukes intention anyway.

Yep, I'm in two minds too.

One thought - we could just put a pointer to the context (ie, "%p") in 
the .ctx file, and it'd be straightforward to get most of the remaining 
information out of /dev/mem...

Cheers,


Jeremy