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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Log the CBUS GPIO validity
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 16:19:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X85IC5NvcWikXfZY@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02b461244a33d5eb0620cfaa13c2b03e@kernel.org>

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 03:00:37PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-12-07 14:29, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:47:38PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> >> +	if (!bitmap_full(valid_mask, ngpios))
> >> +		dev_warn_once(&port->dev, "Consider using a tool such as ftx-prog 
> >> to enable GPIOs if required\n");
> >> +
> > 
> > And again, this is not something that belongs in the logs of just about
> > every system with an attached ftdi device.
> 
> Fine by me, this patch can be dropped without issue. After all,
> I now know how to deal with these chips.
> 
> > While not possible to combine with the valid_mask approach, this is
> > something which we could otherwise add to the request() callback for 
> > the
> > first request that fails due to the mux configuration.
> 
> That was Linus' initial suggestion. But I think a consistent user
> API is more important than free advise in the kernel log.

I tend to agree. So since your valid-mask approach clearly has some
merit in that it marks the lines in use when using the new cdev
interface, perhaps we should stick with that.

Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04 16:47 [PATCH 0/4] USB: ftdio_sio: GPIO validity fixes Marc Zyngier
2020-12-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] gpiolib: cdev: Flag invalid GPIOs as used Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 14:16   ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-07 14:59     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09  9:25   ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Report the valid GPIO lines to gpiolib Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09  9:28   ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Log the CBUS GPIO validity Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 14:29   ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-07 15:00     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 15:19       ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2020-12-09  9:35         ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-09 17:05           ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-09 17:39             ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Drop GPIO line checking dead code Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07  9:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] USB: ftdio_sio: GPIO validity fixes Andy Shevchenko
2020-12-07 14:01 ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-07 14:41   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 15:08     ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-07 15:34       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 15:49         ` Johan Hovold
2020-12-09  9:20           ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-09 15:42             ` Johan Hovold

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