Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] gpio: add support for the Diolan DLN-2 USB GPIO driver

[Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Johan Hovold <johan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:17:59PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>
>> +static int dln2_do_remove(struct dln2_gpio *dln2)
>> +{
>> +     /* When removing the DLN2 USB device, gpiochip_remove may fail
>> +      * due to i2c drivers holding a GPIO pin. However, the i2c bus
>> +      * will eventually be removed triggering an i2c driver remove
>> +      * which will release the GPIO pin. So retrying the operation
>> +      * later should succeed. */
>> +     int ret = gpiochip_remove(&dln2->gpio);
>> +     struct device *dev = dln2->gpio.dev;
>> +
>> +     if (ret < 0) {
>> +             if (ret == -EBUSY)
>> +                     schedule_delayed_work(&dln2->remove_work.work, HZ/10);
>> +             else
>> +                     dev_warn(dev, "error removing gpio chip: %d\n", ret);
>> +     } else {
>> +             kfree(dln2);
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     return ret;
>> +}
>
> Apparently, the return value from gpiochip_remove is going away:
>
>         "Start to kill off the return value from gpiochip_remove() by
>         removing the __must_check attribute and removing all checks
>         inside the drivers/gpio directory. The rationale is: well what
>         were we supposed to do if there is an error code? Not much:
>         print an error message. And gpiolib already does that. So make
>         this function return void eventually."
>
>         https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-gpio-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org/msg03468.html
>

Oh, I missed this, thanks for pointing it out.

> Also, have you considered what happens if there are gpios exported
> through sysfs? These may never be released.
>
> In general, how well have these patches been tested with disconnect
> events? At least gpiolib is known to blow up (sooner or later) when a
> gpiochip is removed when having requested gpios.
>

I do disconnect tests regularly. Since switching to the new irq
interface the following patch is needed:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/5/408

With it and the current patch sets things seems to work well.