Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] rpmsg: Move the rpmsg control device from rpmsg_char to rpmsg_ctrl

[Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com>]

On 10/9/21 1:35 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 12 Jul 05:37 PDT 2021, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote:
> 
>> Create the rpmsg_ctrl.c module and move the code related to the
>> rpmsg_ctrldev device in this new module.
>>
>> Add the dependency between rpmsg_char and rpmsg_ctrl in the
>> kconfig file.
>>
> 
> As I said in the cover letter, the only reason I can see for doing this
> refactoring is in relation to the introduction of
> RPMSG_CREATE_DEV_IOCTL. So I would like this patch to go together with
> that patch, together with a good motivation why there's merit to
> creating yet another kernel module (and by bind/unbind can't be used).
> 
> Perhaps I'm just missing some good usecase related to this?


> 
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig      |   9 ++
>>  drivers/rpmsg/Makefile     |   1 +
>>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c | 170 +----------------------------
>>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.h |   2 +
>>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_ctrl.c | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_ctrl.c
>>
> [..]
>> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
> [..]
>> -static int rpmsg_chrdev_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
>> -{
> [..]
>> -	dev = &ctrldev->dev;
>> -	device_initialize(dev);
>> -	dev->parent = &rpdev->dev;
>> -	dev->class = rpmsg_class;
> [..]
>> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_ctrl.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_ctrl.c
> [..]
>> +static int rpmsg_ctrldev_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
>> +{
> [..]
>> +	dev = &ctrldev->dev;
>> +	device_initialize(dev);
>> +	dev->parent = &rpdev->dev;
> 
> You lost the assignment of dev->class here, which breaks the udev rules
> we use to invoke rpmsgexport to create endpoints and it causes udevadm
> to complain that rpmsg_ctrlN doesn't have a "subsystem".

We discussed this point with Mathieu, as a first step i kept the class, but that
generated another dependency with the rpmsg_char device while information was
available on the rpmsg bus. The char device and ctrl device should share the
same class. As rpmsg_ctrl is created first it would have to create the class,and
provide an API to rpmsg char

Please could you details what does means "rpmsg_ctrlN doesn't have a
"subsystem"." What exactly the udev is looking for? could it base it check on
the /dev/rpmsg_ctrl0 or /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/...?

Thanks,
Arnaud

> 
> Regards,
> Bjorn
>