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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZnWC1qCTqrJvu3H86S9F+jdh0DzR6xwbp=zDCSa2xR_A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:57:56 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     "D, Lakshmi Sowjanya" <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>
Cc:     "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Saha, Tamal" <tamal.saha@...el.com>, bala.senthil@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 13/20] tools: gpio: Add event count capability to
 event monitor application

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 6:48 PM <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com> wrote:

> From: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>
>
> Add -t command line flag requesting event count to the gpio-event-mon
> application. If event count is unsupported an invalid argument error is
> returned by GPIOlib and the application exits with an error. The event
> count is printed with the event type and timestamp.
>
> Co-developed-by: Christopher Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tamal Saha <tamal.saha@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>

This looks wrong.

If this hardware can report timestamped events, which I believe
it does, each event should be reported to userspace uniquely,
ideally using the native timestamp, and using the in-progress HTE
subsystem.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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