[PATCH 0/2] Associate ddc adapters with connectors
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz
andrzej.p at collabora.com
Tue Jun 25 10:14:27 UTC 2019
Hi Russell,
W dniu 25.06.2019 o 12:03, Russell King - ARM Linux admin pisze:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:46:34AM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
>> It is difficult for a user to know which of the i2c adapters is for which
>> drm connector. This series addresses this problem.
>>
>> The idea is to have a symbolic link in connector's sysfs directory, e.g.:
>>
>> ls -l /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/i2c-2
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 24 10:42 /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/i2c-2 \
>> -> ../../../../soc/13880000.i2c/i2c-2
>
> Don't you want the symlink name to be "i2c" or something fixed, rather
> than the name of the i2c adapter? Otherwise, you seem to be encumbering
> userspace with searching the directory to try and find the symlink.
>
Thank you for your comment. So you imagine something on the lines of:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 24 10:42 /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/ddc \
-> ../../../../soc/13880000.i2c/i2c-2
?
This makes sense to me, I will send a v2.
Andrzej
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