linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpiolib: cdev: directionless line reconfiguration

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Message-ID: <171950170548.40188.15774254279072823982.b4-ty@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:23:15 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	brgl@...ev.pl,
	linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpiolib: cdev: directionless line reconfiguration

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>


On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:29:21 +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> The behaviour of request reconfiguration without a direction flag set is
> ill-defined and badly behaved, for both uAPI v1 and v2.  I'll will refer
> to such a configuration as 'directionless' here.  That refers to the
> configuration requested, not the actual state of the line.
> 
> The configuration validation used during reconfiguration is borrowed from
> the line request operation, where, to verify the intent of the user, the
> direction must be set to in order to effect a change to the electrical
> configuration of a line. But that validation does not allow for the
> directionless case, making it possible to clear flags set previously
> without specifying the line direction.
> 
> [...]

I applied the first two for fixes and will apply the remaining two for the
upcoming merge window once this gets upstream.

[1/4] gpiolib: cdev: Disallow reconfiguration without direction (uAPI v1)
      commit: 9919cce62f68e6ab68dc2a975b5dc670f8ca7d40
[2/4] gpiolib: cdev: Ignore reconfiguration without direction
      commit: b440396387418fe2feaacd41ca16080e7a8bc9ad

Best regards,
-- 
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>