Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: return NULL from gpiod_get_optional when GPIOLIB is disabled

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

[ Forgot to add Uwe to the CC ]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 05:13:55PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Given the intent behind gpiod_get_optional() and friends it does not make
> sense to return -ENOSYS when GPIOLIB is disabled: the driver is expected to
> work just fine without gpio so let's behave as if gpio was not found.
> Otherwise we have to special-case -ENOSYS in drivers.
> 
> Note that there was objection that someone might forget to enable GPIOLIB
> when dealing with a platform that has device that actually specifies
> optional gpio and we'll break it. I find this unconvincing as that would
> have to be the *only GPIO* in the system, which is extremely unlikely.
> 
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This is a resend of a similar patch from a couple years ago.
> 
> V2:
> 
> - added paragraph to Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt at request of
>   Alexandre Courbot
> - added Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König at request of Alexandre Courbot
> - hopefully addressed Uwe's concern about gpiolib being disabled in the
>   patch description: I find it extremely unlikely that the optional GPIO
>   would happen to be the only GPIO in the whole system.
> - added handling for more _optional() calls appeared since V1 was
>   posted.
> 
>  Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt |  6 ++++++
>  include/linux/gpio/consumer.h   | 12 ++++++------
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
> index 05676fdacfe3..912568baabb9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
> @@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ instead of -ENOENT if no GPIO has been assigned to the requested function:
>  						   unsigned int index,
>  						   enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  
> +Note that gpio_get*_optional() functions (and their managed variants), unlike
> +the rest of gpiolib API, also return NULL when gpiolib support is disabled.
> +This is helpful to driver authors, since they do not need to special case
> +-ENOSYS return codes.  System integrators should however be careful to enable
> +gpiolib on systems that need it.
> +
>  For a function using multiple GPIOs all of those can be obtained with one call:
>  
>  	struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev,
> diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
> index fb0fde686cb1..a0431f4aa6cc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gpio/consumer.h
> @@ -165,14 +165,14 @@ static inline struct gpio_desc *__must_check
>  gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  		   enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline struct gpio_desc *__must_check
>  gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  			 unsigned int index, enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline struct gpio_descs *__must_check
> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static inline struct gpio_descs *__must_check
>  gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  			 enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline void gpiod_put(struct gpio_desc *desc)
> @@ -226,14 +226,14 @@ static inline struct gpio_desc *__must_check
>  devm_gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  			  enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline struct gpio_desc *__must_check
>  devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  				unsigned int index, enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline struct gpio_descs *__must_check
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static inline struct gpio_descs *__must_check
>  devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
>  			      enum gpiod_flags flags)
>  {
> -	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static inline void devm_gpiod_put(struct device *dev, struct gpio_desc *desc)
> -- 
> 2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry

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Dmitry