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Date:   Sat, 10 Mar 2018 23:06:14 +0100
From:   Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@...mentarea.net>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: chemical: sgpxx: triggered buffer support

On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 17:48 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:11:29 +0100
> Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@...mentarea.net> wrote:
> 
> > Support triggered buffer for use with e.g. hrtimer for automated
> > polling to ensure that the sensor's internal baseline is correctly
> > updated independently of the use-case.
> 
> Given the really strict timing requirements for this device and slow
> read rates, I wouldn't involve a triggered buffer at all, but
> actually
> do it with a thread / timer within the initial driver.   The
> sysfs interface is more than adequate for a 1Hz device so using
> the buffered option is just adding unnecessary complexity...

Thanks for the suggestions, I went with that in v2.

> 
> I reviewed the code anyway.  Key thing is though the file would be
> small, there should be a separate .c file for the buffered support
> if you are going to make it optional. That way we don't get ifdefs
> in the c file, but rather stubs provided in the header.

FWIW, I learned a few things

> You could decide to add stubs to include/linux/iio/triggered_buffer.h
> /buffer.h
> 
> and then use __maybe_unusued to mark your trigger function.
> The compiler would drop it anyway and this would suppress build
> warnings.  
> 
> However, I don't think this device wants to be supported via the
> buffered interfaces at all.  More smartness needed in the core
> driver to maintain the timing etc.
> 
> Jonathan
> > 
> > Triggered buffer support is only enabled when IIO_BUFFER is set.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Brauchli <andreas.brauchli@...sirion.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iio/chemical/Kconfig |  3 +++
> >  drivers/iio/chemical/sgpxx.c | 38
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/chemical/Kconfig
> > b/drivers/iio/chemical/Kconfig
> > index 4574dd687513..6710fbfc6451 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/chemical/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/chemical/Kconfig
> > @@ -42,12 +42,15 @@ config SENSIRION_SGPXX
> >  	tristate "Sensirion SGPxx gas sensors"
> >  	depends on I2C
> >  	select CRC8
> > +	select IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER if (IIO_BUFFER)
> >  	help
> >  	  Say Y here to build I2C interface support for the
> > following
> >  	  Sensirion SGP gas sensors:
> >  	    * SGP30 gas sensor
> >  	    * SGPC3 gas sensor
> >  
> > +	  Also select IIO_BUFFER to enable triggered buffers.
> > +
> >  	  To compile this driver as module, choose M here: the
> >  	  module will be called sgpxx.
> >  
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/chemical/sgpxx.c
> > b/drivers/iio/chemical/sgpxx.c
> > index aea55e41d4cc..025206448f73 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/chemical/sgpxx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/chemical/sgpxx.c
> > @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
> >  #include <linux/of_device.h>
> >  #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
> >  #include <linux/iio/buffer.h>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER
> > +#include <linux/iio/trigger_consumer.h>
> > +#include <linux/iio/triggered_buffer.h>
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER */
> >  #include <linux/iio/sysfs.h>
> >  
> >  #define SGP_WORD_LEN			2
> > @@ -789,6 +793,26 @@ static const struct of_device_id sgp_dt_ids[]
> > = {
> >  	{ }
> >  };
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER
> 
> All this ifdef fun is rather messy.
> Split it out to a separate file like most other drivers with
> optional buffer support. 
> 
> General rule (more or less) of kernel drivers is that
> any optional ifdef stuff should be in headers to provide stubs
> when code isn't available, not down in the drivers making them
> harder to read.
> 
> > +static irqreturn_t sgp_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
> > +{
> > +	struct iio_poll_func *pf = p;
> > +	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev;
> > +	struct sgp_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	ret = sgp_get_measurement(data, data->measure_iaq_cmd,
> > +				  SGP_MEASURE_MODE_IAQ);
> > +	if (!ret)
> > +		iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev,
> > +						   &data-
> > >buffer.start,
> > +						   pf->timestamp);
> > +
> > +	iio_trigger_notify_done(indio_dev->trig);
> > +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
> > +}
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER */
> > +
> >  static int sgp_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> >  		     const struct i2c_device_id *id)
> >  {
> > @@ -846,6 +870,17 @@ static int sgp_probe(struct i2c_client
> > *client,
> >  	indio_dev->channels = chip->channels;
> >  	indio_dev->num_channels = chip->num_channels;
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER
> > +	ret = iio_triggered_buffer_setup(indio_dev,
> > +					 iio_pollfunc_store_time,
> > +					 sgp_trigger_handler,
> > +					 NULL);
> > +	if (ret) {
> > +		dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to setup iio
> > triggered buffer\n");
> > +		goto fail_free;
> > +	}
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER */
> > +
> >  	ret = devm_iio_device_register(&client->dev, indio_dev);
> >  	if (!ret)
> >  		return ret;
> > @@ -863,6 +898,9 @@ static int sgp_remove(struct i2c_client
> > *client)
> >  {
> >  	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER
> > +	iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup(indio_dev);
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER */
> 
> I would prefer stubs being added to the header for this case to
> having
> ifdefs in here.
> 
> >  	devm_iio_device_unregister(&client->dev, indio_dev);
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> 
> 

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