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Message-ID: <YOwd8aL+K+U+9GXz@shinobu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:48:17 +0900
From: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/17] Introduce the Counter character device
interface
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 02:48:28PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 17:18:48 +0900
> William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > Changes in v12:
> > - Move unlock to after register set in quad8_count_ceiling_write()
> > - Add locking protection to counter_set_event_node()
> > - Fix sparse warning by using {} instead of {0}
> > - Clean up and organize comments for clarity
> > - Reduce boilerplate by utilizing devm_add_action_or_reset()
> > - Use switch statements in ti_eqep_action_read() to make possible cases
> > more obvious
> >
> > I pulled out a lot of bits and pieces to their own patches; hopefully
> > that makes reviewing this patchset much simpler than before. This
> > patchset is also available on my personal git repo for convenience:
> > https://gitlab.com/vilhelmgray/iio/-/tree/counter_chrdev_v12
> >
> > The patches preceding "counter: Internalize sysfs interface code" are
> > primarily cleanup and fixes that can be picked up and applied now to the
> > IIO tree if so desired. The "counter: Internalize sysfs interface code"
> > patch as well may be considered for pickup because it is relatively safe
> > and makes no changes to the userspace interface.
> >
> > To summarize the main points of this patchset: there are no changes to
> > the existing Counter sysfs userspace interface; a Counter character
> > device interface is introduced that allows Counter events and associated
> > data to be read() by userspace; the events_configure() and
> > watch_validate() driver callbacks are introduced to support Counter
> > events; and IRQ support is added to the 104-QUAD-8 driver, serving as an
> > example of how to support the new Counter events functionality.
> >
> > Something that should still be discussed: should the struct
> > counter_event "status" member be 8 bits or 32 bits wide? This member
> > will provide the return status (system error number) of an event
> > operation.
>
> Hi william,
>
> I've looked through the lot and where I haven't commented, I had nothing
> much to add to David's comments.
>
> I'm not planning to go through the whole thing again unless major changes
> occur. Fingers crossed for v13.
>
> If it looks like there are still some unresolved issues after that, perhaps
> applying up to patch 8 or so makes sense to reduced the volume of code you
> are carrying. Let me know if you'd like me to do that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
Yes, much of the code has remained stable for some months now so I think
we're pretty close. If we do need a v14, then applying up to patch 8
would help me a lot (most of the merge conflicts I encounter when I
rebase are due to the large subsystem refactor in patch 06).
William Breathitt Gray
> >
> > William Breathitt Gray (17):
> > counter: 104-quad-8: Return error when invalid mode during
> > ceiling_write
> > counter: Return error code on invalid modes
> > counter: Standardize to ERANGE for limit exceeded errors
> > counter: Rename counter_signal_value to counter_signal_level
> > counter: Rename counter_count_function to counter_function
> > counter: Internalize sysfs interface code
> > counter: Update counter.h comments to reflect sysfs internalization
> > docs: counter: Update to reflect sysfs internalization
> > counter: Move counter enums to uapi header
> > counter: Add character device interface
> > docs: counter: Document character device interface
> > tools/counter: Create Counter tools
> > counter: Implement signalZ_action_component_id sysfs attribute
> > counter: Implement *_component_id sysfs attributes
> > counter: Implement events_queue_size sysfs attribute
> > counter: 104-quad-8: Replace mutex with spinlock
> > counter: 104-quad-8: Add IRQ support for the ACCES 104-QUAD-8
> >
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter | 38 +-
> > Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 366 +++-
> > .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1 +
> > MAINTAINERS | 3 +-
> > drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c | 728 ++++----
> > drivers/counter/Kconfig | 6 +-
> > drivers/counter/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/counter/counter-chrdev.c | 498 ++++++
> > drivers/counter/counter-chrdev.h | 14 +
> > drivers/counter/counter-core.c | 182 ++
> > drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c | 953 +++++++++++
> > drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.h | 13 +
> > drivers/counter/counter.c | 1496 -----------------
> > drivers/counter/ftm-quaddec.c | 59 +-
> > drivers/counter/intel-qep.c | 150 +-
> > drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c | 73 +-
> > drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c | 103 +-
> > drivers/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.c | 176 +-
> > drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c | 147 +-
> > drivers/counter/ti-eqep.c | 205 ++-
> > include/linux/counter.h | 716 ++++----
> > include/linux/counter_enum.h | 45 -
> > include/uapi/linux/counter.h | 133 ++
> > tools/Makefile | 13 +-
> > tools/counter/Build | 1 +
> > tools/counter/Makefile | 53 +
> > tools/counter/counter_example.c | 95 ++
> > 27 files changed, 3501 insertions(+), 2767 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter-chrdev.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter-chrdev.h
> > create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter-core.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.h
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter.c
> > delete mode 100644 include/linux/counter_enum.h
> > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/counter.h
> > create mode 100644 tools/counter/Build
> > create mode 100644 tools/counter/Makefile
> > create mode 100644 tools/counter/counter_example.c
> >
> >
> > base-commit: 6cbb3aa0f9d5d23221df787cf36f74d3866fdb78
>
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