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* [RFC 0/7] Deal with iio trigger names
@ 2016-05-23 18:39 Crestez Dan Leonard
  2016-05-23 18:39 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] iio: generic_buffer: Cleanup when receiving signals Crestez Dan Leonard
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  0 siblings, 8 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Crestez Dan Leonard @ 2016-05-23 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jonathan Cameron, linux-iio
  Cc: linux-kernel, Hartmut Knaack, Lars-Peter Clausen,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler, Daniel Baluta, Crestez Dan Leonard

IIO documents that trigger names are unique but does not actually guarantee
this. You can easily create a software trigger with a duplicate name if you
enable CONFIG_IIO_HRTIMER_TRIGGER:

	mkdir /sys/kernel/config/iio/triggers/hrtimer/\
		`cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/trigger0/name`

You can also get in this situation if you connect two identical st_sensors.

My attempt to fix this is by adding a new 'current_trigger_id' ABI which is a
numeric ID (X from triggerX) rather than a non-unique string. I tested that
this works as expected when connecting two LIS3DH to the same system. This is
in patches 4,5.

In theory the current_trigger ABI could be overloaded to looks for something
matching "trigger[0-9]+" but this would be nastier. There would be a need to
prevent registering triggers that match that expression in order to prevent
stuff like:

	mkdir /sys/kernel/config/iio/triggers/hrtimer/trigger1

Such an overload wouldn't work on read and make it impossible to unambigiously
determine the currently selected trigger.


Patch 6 disallows registering duplicate trigger names. This makes drivers
which currently do that break at probe time.

Patch 7 attempts to ensure that all drivers include indio_dev->id when calling
iio_trigger_alloc. This obviously changes trigger names.


Either 4,5 or 6,7 fix this issue, but 4,5 causes fewer compat issues.


Patches 1,2,3 are just minor features in tools/generic_buffer. They supersede
the v2 I posted earlier:

	https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-iio/msg24867.html

Crestez Dan Leonard (7):
  iio: generic_buffer: Cleanup when receiving signals
  iio: generic_buffer: Add --device-num option
  iio: generic_buffer: Add --trigger-num option
  iio: Add current_trigger_id alternative
  iio: generic_buffer: Use current_trigger_id
  iio: Refuse to register triggers with duplicate names
  iio: Make trigger names unique

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio            |   9 +
 Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl                     |   4 +-
 drivers/iio/adc/max1027.c                          |   4 +-
 drivers/iio/common/st_sensors/st_sensors_trigger.c |   2 +-
 drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c                 | 136 ++++++++---
 drivers/iio/light/gp2ap020a00f.c                   |   4 +-
 tools/iio/generic_buffer.c                         | 269 ++++++++++++++-------
 7 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)

-- 
2.5.5

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2016-05-23 18:39 [RFC 0/7] Deal with iio trigger names Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-23 18:39 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] iio: generic_buffer: Cleanup when receiving signals Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-29 19:38   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-23 18:39 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] iio: generic_buffer: Add --device-num option Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-29 19:41   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-23 18:39 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] iio: generic_buffer: Add --trigger-num option Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-29 19:43   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-23 18:39 ` [RFC 4/7] iio: Add current_trigger_id alternative Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-31 14:11   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-05-23 18:40 ` [RFC 5/7] iio: generic_buffer: Use current_trigger_id Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-23 18:40 ` [RFC 6/7] iio: Refuse to register triggers with duplicate names Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-29 19:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-30 12:49     ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-31 14:03       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-06-11 16:55         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-23 18:40 ` [RFC 7/7] iio: Make trigger names unique Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-05-29 19:44 ` [RFC 0/7] Deal with iio trigger names Jonathan Cameron

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