From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Felipe Balbi" <felipebalbi@users.sourceforge.net>,
"Bill Gatliff" <bgat@billgatliff.com>,
"Haavard Skinnemoen" <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
"Andrew Victor" <andrew@sanpeople.com>,
"Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
"Jean Delvare" <khali@linux-fr.org>,
"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@mvista.com>,
"Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
"Ben Dooks" <ben@trinity.fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 1/4] GPIO implementation framework
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:18:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711132018.22995.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f17812d70711131703g2e37d68aub8cacc61ccbae49f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 13 November 2007, eric miao wrote:
> Here comes the point of "struct gpio_desc"
>
> Subject: [PATCH 3/5] use a per GPIO "struct gpio_desc" and chain
> "gpio_chip" to a list
I see what it does, but don't see the "why" ... surely
you can come up with a one sentence description of why
this would be better?
And I'd been so glad to *get rid of* that list, too.
> +struct gpio_desc {
> + struct gpio_chip *chip;
> +};
> +
> -/* gpio_lock protects modification to the table of chips and to
> - * gpio_chip->requested. If a gpio is requested, its gpio_chip
> - * is not removable.
> - */
But it still protects data. Don't remove documentation for
what locks protect ... update it! Otherwise someonels going
to come by and make a change which breaks the locking model.
Usually in some subtle (hard-to-debug) way.
>
> - for (id = 0; id < ARRAY_SIZE(chips); id++) {
> - chip = chips[id];
> - if (!chip)
> - continue;
> -
> + list_for_each_entry(chip, &gpio_chip_list, node) {
> seq_printf(s, "%sGPIOs %d-%d, %s%s:\n",
> started ? "\n" : "",
> chip->base, chip->base + chip->ngpio - 1,
Note that this now produces the debug info in a relatively
random order ... ordered by registration rather than anything
useful, and hence awkward to read.
It'd be better if you just scanned your new gpio_desc[]
table in numeric order, and start a new section whenever
you find a new gpio_chip.
That'd get rid of that otherwise-useless list, too.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-10-30 1:51 ` [patch/rfc 1/4] GPIO implementation framework David Brownell
2007-11-05 21:05 ` David Brownell
2007-11-13 2:28 ` eric miao
2007-11-13 19:06 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 0:57 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 1:00 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 1:02 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 1:03 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 1:04 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 1:04 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 4:36 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 6:51 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 7:19 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 7:36 ` eric miao
2007-11-17 10:38 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-17 17:36 ` David Brownell
2007-11-20 15:20 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-14 4:18 ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-11-14 6:46 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 3:28 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 3:25 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 3:53 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 6:37 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 3:30 ` David Brownell
2007-11-14 6:40 ` eric miao
2007-11-14 7:08 ` David Brownell
2007-11-27 1:46 ` David Brownell
2007-11-27 10:58 ` eric miao
2007-11-27 17:26 ` David Brownell
2007-11-27 19:03 ` David Brownell
2007-11-27 19:29 ` David Brownell
2007-11-28 5:11 ` eric miao
2007-11-28 3:15 ` [patch/rfc 2.6.24-rc3-mm] gpiolib grows a gpio_desc David Brownell
2007-11-28 9:10 ` eric miao
2007-11-28 9:53 ` David Brownell
2007-10-30 1:51 ` [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x I2C GPIO expander driver David Brownell
2007-11-30 12:32 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-30 13:04 ` Bill Gatliff
2007-11-30 13:36 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-30 14:09 ` Bill Gatliff
2007-11-30 18:40 ` David Brownell
2007-11-30 20:13 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-30 20:59 ` David Brownell
2008-04-04 2:06 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-04 2:45 ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-04 3:33 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-04 4:57 ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-05 4:05 ` userspace GPIO access (WAS: [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x ...) David Brownell
2008-04-07 17:56 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-04 8:09 ` [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf875x I2C GPIO expander driver Jean Delvare
2008-04-04 19:07 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-04 19:36 ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-04 20:18 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-05 2:51 ` David Brownell
2008-04-05 2:53 ` David Brownell
2007-12-06 3:03 ` [patch/rfc 2/4] pcf857x " David Brownell
2007-12-06 23:17 ` Jean Delvare
2007-12-07 4:02 ` David Brownell
2007-10-30 1:53 ` [patch/rfc 3/4] DaVinci platform uses new GPIOLIB David Brownell
2007-10-30 1:54 ` [patch/rfc 4/4] DaVinci EVM uses pcf857x GPIO driver David Brownell
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