linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] gpio: cdev: wake up chardev poll() on device unbind

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:43:38 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] gpio: cdev: wake up chardev poll() on device unbind

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:31 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 08:49:56PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> >
> > Add a notifier block to the gpio_chardev_data structure and register it
> > with the gpio_device's device notifier. Upon reception of an event, wake
> > up the wait queue so that the user-space be forced out of poll() and need
> > to go into a new system call which will then fail due to the chip being
> > gone.
>
> ...
>
> > +     struct gpio_chardev_data *cdev = container_of(nb,
> > +                                                   struct gpio_chardev_data,
> > +                                                   device_unregistered_nb);
>
>         struct gpio_chardev_data *cdev =
>                 container_of(nb, struct gpio_chardev_data, device_unregistered_nb);
>
> ?

I could live with the other version but sure, why not.

I will send a v3 with a helper wrapper around
blocking_notifier_call_chain() for more brevity.

Bart