Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] counter: add IRQ or GPIO based event counter

[Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 05:20:21PM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 05:11:03PM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 08:35:06AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:34:06AM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > > > Alternatively, we can take a more generic approach: ignore the GPIO
> > > > names and focus solely on the IRQ lines; because the GPIO lines will
> > > > always be tied to respective IRQ lines here, using the IRQ as the basis
> > > > of the name should always be valid. The "name" member of the struct
> > > > irq_chip can work for this. I haven't tested this, but I think something
> > > > like this would work:
> > > > 
> > > > 	cnt_signals[0].name = irq_get_chip(priv->irq)->name;
> > > 
> > > ok, i'll take a look at it.
> > 
> > If that doesn't work, then use devm_kasprintf() to generate the name
> > based on the IRQ line number. The idea here is that the user should be
> > able to identify that the Signal component for this Count is the
> > respective IRQ.
> > 
> > William Breathitt Gray
> 
> I realized that these irq_chip names are often just the device name
> which isn't very useful either. :-(
> 
> In that case, I suppose we really are just left with generating the name
> based on the IRQ line number then. This should be fine then:
> 
> 	cnt_signals[0].name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "IRQ %d",
> 					     priv->irq);
> 	if (!cnt_signals[0].name)
> 		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> I think this would make it clear to the user that this Signal is the
> respective IRQ (whether sourced from GPIO or not).

ack, with one correction. cnt_signals should be allocated, otherwise
this value will be set per driver not per device.

Regards,
Oleksij
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