Re: [patch v1 1/2] drivers: jtag: Add JTAG core driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:18:37PM +0300, Oleksandr Shamray wrote:
> JTAG class driver provide infrastructure to support hardware/software
> JTAG platform drivers. It provide user layer API interface for flashing
> and debugging external devices which equipped with JTAG interface
> using standard transactions.

Yeah, it's nice to see this.

Some "meta" comments on this patch first:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/jtag/jtag.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,347 @@
> +/*
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Ok, dual BSD/GPL, that's fine, but really?  In this day and age you want
to deal with that complexity?

I ask because then you export your symbols as "gpl only" everywhere:

> +void *jtag_priv(struct jtag *jtag)
> +{
> +	return jtag->priv;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(jtag_priv);

Which I don't object to at all, and personally really like, but it kind
of doesn't make sense, right?  How about just dropping the dual license
mess?  There's nothing here that any other OS will ever care about,
right?

For your uapi header file, that makes sense to keep it dual.


Now a technical comment:

> +/**
> + * struct jtag_run_test_idle - forces JTAG sm to
> + * RUN_TEST/IDLE state *
> + * @mode: access mode
> + * @reset: 0 - run IDEL/PAUSE from current state
> + *         1 - go trough TEST_LOGIC/RESET state before  IDEL/PAUSE
> + * @end: completion flag
> + * @tck: clock counter
> + *
> + * Structure represents interface to JTAG device for jtag idle
> + * execution.
> + */
> +struct jtag_run_test_idle {
> +	enum jtag_xfer_mode	mode;
> +	unsigned char		reset;
> +	enum jtag_endstate	endstate;
> +	unsigned char		tck;
> +};

All structures that cross the user/kernel boundry have to use the __
type variables.

No "unsigned char", it has to be "__u8", no "unsigned short", it has to
be "__u16", and so on.

Also, watch out for your enumerated types, what's the packing end up
looking like on these structures?  Have you verified it works with a
64bit kernel and 32bit userspace all correctly?

thanks,

greg k-h