Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: gpiolib: set gpiochip_remove retval to void

[Ben Dooks <ben@trinity.fluff.org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 05/30/2014 07:33 PM, David Daney wrote:
> >On 05/30/2014 04:39 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:30 PM, abdoulaye berthe <berthe.ab@gmail.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>>--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >>>+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >>>@@ -1263,10 +1263,9 @@ static void gpiochip_irqchip_remove(struct
> >>>gpio_chip *gpiochip);
> >>>   *
> >>>   * A gpio_chip with any GPIOs still requested may not be removed.
> >>>   */
> >>>-int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >>>+void gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >>>  {
> >>>         unsigned long   flags;
> >>>-       int             status = 0;
> >>>         unsigned        id;
> >>>
> >>>         acpi_gpiochip_remove(chip);
> >>>@@ -1278,24 +1277,15 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip)
> >>>         of_gpiochip_remove(chip);
> >>>
> >>>         for (id = 0; id < chip->ngpio; id++) {
> >>>-               if (test_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &chip->desc[id].flags)) {
> >>>-                       status = -EBUSY;
> >>>-                       break;
> >>>-               }
> >>>-       }
> >>>-       if (status == 0) {
> >>>-               for (id = 0; id < chip->ngpio; id++)
> >>>-                       chip->desc[id].chip = NULL;
> >>>-
> >>>-               list_del(&chip->list);
> >>>+               if (test_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &chip->desc[id].flags))
> >>>+                       panic("gpio: removing gpiochip with gpios still
> >>>requested\n");
> >>
> >>panic?
> >
> >NACK to the patch for this reason.  The strongest thing you should do here
> >is WARN.
> >
> >That said, I am not sure why we need this whole patch set in the first place.
> 
> Well, what currently happens when you remove a device that is a
> provider of a gpio_chip which is still in use, is that the kernel
> crashes. Probably with a rather cryptic error message. So this patch
> doesn't really change the behavior, but makes it more explicit what
> is actually wrong. And even if you replace the panic() by a WARN()
> it will again just crash slightly later.
> 
> This is a design flaw in the GPIO subsystem that needs to be fixed.

Surely then the best way is to error out to the module unload and
stop the driver being unloaded?

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