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From: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
To: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kamel.bouhara@bootlin.com,
	gwendal@chromium.org, a.fatoum@pengutronix.de,
	david@lechnology.com, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	patrick.havelange@essensium.com,
	linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com, fabrice.gasnier@st.com,
	syednwaris@gmail.com, kernel@pengutronix.de, jic23@kernel.org,
	alexandre.torgue@st.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/5] counter: Add character device interface
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:01:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210128090113.GA8734@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57bc509273bf288d74835e6ebdaebf27b4991888.1608935587.git.vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>

Hello William,


On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 07:15:36PM -0500, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> This patch introduces a character device interface for the Counter
> subsystem. Device data is exposed through standard character device read
> operations. Device data is gathered when a Counter event is pushed by
> the respective Counter device driver. Configuration is handled via ioctl
> operations on the respective Counter character device node.
> 
> Cc: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
> ---
...
> +struct counter_event {
> +	__aligned_u64 timestamp;
> +	__aligned_u64 value;
> +	struct counter_watch watch;
> +	__u8 errno;

This variable clashed in user space, as soon as you include errno.h,
with the libc's "magic" definition of errno. What about "err" instead.
I'm not sure it an __u8 is the proper type, IIRC usually it's an int.

Regards,
Oleksij
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-26  0:15 [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce the Counter character device interface William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-26  0:15 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] docs: counter: Update to reflect sysfs internalization William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 14:41   ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-12-26  0:15 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] counter: Add character device interface William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 15:04   ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-02-12  6:32     ` William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 21:36   ` David Lechner
2021-01-30  4:59     ` William Breathitt Gray
2021-01-28  9:01   ` Oleksij Rempel [this message]
2021-01-30  5:15     ` William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-26  0:15 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] docs: counter: Document " William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 14:47   ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-12-30 18:18   ` David Lechner
2020-12-26  0:15 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] counter: 104-quad-8: Add IRQ support for the ACCES 104-QUAD-8 William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 15:31   ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-02-12  6:04     ` William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 17:36   ` David Lechner
2021-02-11 23:56     ` William Breathitt Gray
2021-02-12  1:10       ` David Lechner
     [not found] ` <fc40ab7f4a38e80d86715daa5eaf744dd645a75b.1608935587.git.vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
2020-12-30 23:24   ` [PATCH v7 1/5] counter: Internalize sysfs interface code David Lechner
2021-01-06  5:30     ` William Breathitt Gray
     [not found]   ` <20201230143719.28a90914@archlinux>
2021-01-06  5:29     ` William Breathitt Gray
2020-12-30 23:34 ` [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce the Counter character device interface David Lechner

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