[PATCH v2 1/3] gpio: Use __gpiod_request directly

[mpa@pengutronix.de (Markus Pargmann)]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0700, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >> There is no reason to find out chip and hwnum to use to request a gpio
> >> and get another gpio descriptor. We already have the descriptor we want
> >> to use so we can directly use it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 17 ++++++-----------
> >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >> index 79a0b41ce57b..872fdd3617c1 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> >> @@ -2189,25 +2189,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__gpiod_get_index_optional);
> >>  int gpiod_hog(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *name,
> >>               unsigned long lflags, enum gpiod_flags dflags)
> >>  {
> >> -       struct gpio_chip *chip;
> >> -       struct gpio_desc *local_desc;
> >> -       int hwnum;
> >>         int status;
> >>
> >> -       chip = gpiod_to_chip(desc);
> >> -       hwnum = gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc);
> >> -
> >> -       local_desc = gpiochip_request_own_desc(chip, hwnum, name);
> >> -       if (IS_ERR(local_desc)) {
> >> +       status = __gpiod_request(desc, name);
> >> +       if (status) {
> >>                 pr_err("requesting hog GPIO %s (chip %s, offset %d) failed\n",
> >> -                      name, chip->label, hwnum);
> >> -               return PTR_ERR(local_desc);
> >> +                      name, gpiod_to_chip(desc)->label,
> >> +                      gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc));
> >> +               return status;
> >>         }
> >>
> >>         status = gpiod_configure_flags(desc, name, lflags, dflags);
> >>         if (status < 0) {
> >>                 pr_err("setup of hog GPIO %s (chip %s, offset %d) failed\n",
> >> -                      name, chip->label, hwnum);
> >> +                      name, gpiod_to_chip(desc)->label, gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc));
> >>                 gpiochip_free_own_desc(desc);
> >
> > Mmm I should have reviewed this patch earlier, but what bothers me a
> > bit is that it breaks the symetry that we had by calling
> > request_own_desc() and free_own_desc() in the failing case (as well as
> > in gpiochip_free_hogs). And in the end you still need to call
> > gpiod_to_chip() so I am not sure what the benefit is.
> >
> > Sure, the code is less verbose, but at the same time it has become
> > slightly harder to understand. Semantically speaking
> > "request_own_desc()" is exactly the action we want to convey.
> > __gpiod_request() is more ambiguous.
> >
> > Note that this is not a reject, I just wanted to stress that "less
> > code" is not necessarily the same as "easier to read".
> 
> OK I dropped this patch for now.
> 
> Markus can you live without this patch for 2/3 and 3/3?

Yes, that's fine. I will remove it and rebase the others.

Best Regards,

Markus

> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

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