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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
To: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIOLINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 19:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMpxmJXv2Ruo-yJTm9bjyj90jWMA_BWHuNyVwyXkzxqmzoHoHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200803230118.GA3650@sol>

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:01 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[snip]

>
> > Also: I just started going through the patches - nice idea with the
> > GPIO attributes, I really like it. Although I need to give it a longer
> > thought tomorrow - I'm wondering if we can maybe unify them and the
> > flags.
> >
>
> I had an earlier draft that did just that - and that is partially why
> the loop is last in wins - I was using slot 0 as the default flags.
> But the default flags cover a lot of use cases, including all of v1, and
> it was simple and cheap to provide a default - and it simplified the
> initial port of libgpiod to v2...
>

If porting libgpiod to v2 is the only concern then I wouldn't stress
about it. At the same time I'm wondering - is there any use-case where
we wouldn't need the flags attribute for at least some lines? Because
if it's always required than maybe having a default isn't that bad.

Bartosz

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-25  4:19 [PATCH v2 00/18] gpio: cdev: add uAPI V2 Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 01/18] gpio: uapi: define GPIO_MAX_NAME_SIZE for array sizes Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 02/18] gpio: uapi: define uAPI v2 Kent Gibson
2020-08-04 17:42   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-08-05  5:18     ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-05 17:47       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-08-06  1:03         ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-06  1:15       ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-06 15:53         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 03/18] gpiolib: make cdev a build option Kent Gibson
2020-07-25 20:29   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-26 22:25   ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-27  1:46     ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-27  5:57       ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-27  8:15         ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 04/18] gpiolib: add build option for CDEV v1 ABI Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 05/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIOLINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL Kent Gibson
2020-07-25 20:51   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-26  1:12     ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-26  3:24       ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-29  2:28       ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-29  8:05         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-29 10:01           ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-31 16:05       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-08-02  3:31         ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-02  9:32           ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-03 19:59             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-08-03 20:02           ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-08-03 23:01             ` Kent Gibson
2020-08-04 17:47               ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2020-08-05  3:06                 ` Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 06/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_V2_IOCTL and GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_V2_IOCTL Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 07/18] gpiolib: cdev: support edge detection for uAPI v2 Kent Gibson
2020-08-04 19:28   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 08/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIOLINE_SET_CONFIG_IOCTL Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 09/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIOLINE_SET_VALUES_IOCTL Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 10/18] gpiolib: cdev: support setting debounce Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 11/18] gpio: uapi: document uAPI v1 as deprecated Kent Gibson
2020-08-04 19:43   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 12/18] tools: gpio: port lsgpio to v2 uAPI Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 13/18] tools: gpio: port gpio-watch " Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 14/18] tools: gpio: rename nlines to num_lines Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 15/18] tools: gpio: port gpio-hammer to v2 uAPI Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 16/18] tools: gpio: port gpio-event-mon " Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 17/18] tools: gpio: add debounce support to gpio-event-mon Kent Gibson
2020-07-25  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 18/18] tools: gpio: add multi-line monitoring " Kent Gibson

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