Zhibin Li's GSoC status report - #2 of 12

[Zhibin Li]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 6:34 PM Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 02:44:16PM +0800, Zhibin Li wrote:
> [...]
> > BTW may I ask what's the problem/concern of convincing strace to call
> device
> > specific decoders by overwriting the internal tcp->_priv_data? It is no
> > injection but what about adding another option, may be something like -e
> priv=i915.
>
> tcp->_priv_data is something so internal to strace implementation that
> nothing else should bother about it.
>
> > I am not sure what the option should look like, but there should be a
> way to
> > specify a specific device when running strace command, right? Any
> thoughts?
>
> Do you suggest to add an option telling strace to ignore drm_is_driver()
> and treat all drm ioctls as if drm_is_driver(tcp, ARG) returned ARG?
>
> Do you thing such an option might be useful beyond the strace test suite?

No, it's not. I should have realized that I kind of messed things up. Now
perhaps I
should find some other solutions and pay more attention to writing the
decoders
instead. Thanks for the explanation.

>


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