linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add Cobalt button interface driver support

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Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:09:43 -0500
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>
To:	Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Cobalt button interface driver support

On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:36, Yoichi Yuasa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch adds support for the back panel buttons on Cobalt server.
> It's tested on the Cobalt Qube2.
> 

Hi,

Thank you for your patch. Couple of comments:

> +
> +		button++;
> +	}
> +
> +	mod_timer(&buttons_timer, jiffies + HZ / BUTTONS_POLL_FREQUENCY);

May I suggest using msecs_to_jiffies() to avoid direct computations on HZ?

> +
> +	bdev->input = input;
> +	bdev->reg = ioremap(res->start, res->end - res->start + 1);
> +	dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, bdev);
> +
> +	setup_timer(&buttons_timer, handle_buttons, (unsigned long)bdev);
> +	mod_timer(&buttons_timer, jiffies + HZ / BUTTONS_POLL_FREQUENCY);

Please implement cobalt_buttons_open() and cobalt_buttons_close() methods
and start/stop timer from there - there is no point in polling hardware
if noone is listening to the events.

> +
> +	return retval;
> +}
> +
> +static int __devexit cobalt_buttons_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> +	struct buttons_dev *bdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> +
> +	del_timer(&buttons_timer);

del_timer_sync? Is there any possibility it may run SMP?

> +
> +static void __exit cobalt_buttons_exit(void)
> +{
> +	platform_driver_unregister(&cobalt_buttons_driver);

You are not allowed to unregister statically allocated devices -
if there are references left and your module goes away then
these references become invalid and kernel goes boom.

Please convert to platform_device_alloc/platform_device_add.

Is there a point of moving platform device creation code into
platform-specific code? Is there a possibility of this driver
being used elsewhere?

> +	platform_device_unregister(&cobalt_buttons_device);
> +}
> +
> +module_init(cobalt_buttons_init);
> +module_exit(cobalt_buttons_exit);
> 

-- 
Dmitry
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