From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Brezillon Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:07:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/46] hwmon: pwm-fan: use pwm_get_args() where appropriate Message-Id: <20160331090709.5c3bdf70@bbrezillon> List-Id: References: <1459368249-13241-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <1459368249-13241-9-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <20160330225244.GA24044@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <20160330225244.GA24044@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Milo Kim , Kamil Debski , Heiko Stuebner , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie , Mike Turquette , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com, Thierry Reding , Alexandre Belloni , Daniel Vetter , Lee Jones , linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Shiyan , Jonathan Corbet , Robert Jarzmik , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, Chen-Yu Tsai , Tomi Valkeinen Hi Guenter, On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:52:44 -0700 Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:03:31PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > The PWM framework has clarified the concept of reference PWM config > > (the platform dependent config retrieved from the DT or the PWM > > lookup table) and real PWM state. > > > > Use pwm_get_args() when the PWM user wants to retrieve this reference > > config and not the current state. > > > > This is part of the rework allowing the PWM framework to support > > hardware readout and expose real PWM state even when the PWM has > > just been requested (before the user calls pwm_config/enable/disable()). > > > > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon > > --- > > drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c | 19 +++++++++++++------ > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c > > index 3e23003..82c5656 100644 > > --- a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c > > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c > > @@ -40,15 +40,18 @@ struct pwm_fan_ctx { > > > > static int __set_pwm(struct pwm_fan_ctx *ctx, unsigned long pwm) > > { > > + struct pwm_args pargs = { }; > > Hi Boris, > > I guess I am missing some context; sorry for that. Unfortunately, > I did not easily find an explanation, so please bear with me. > > Two questions: Why do we need a local copy of struct pwm_args instead > of a pointer to it ? If it can change while being used, isn't it > inconsistent anyway ? It cannot change after pwm_get() is called. For the reason behind prototype: I just followed the Thierry's proposal, but I'm perfectly fine returning a const struct pwm_args pointer intead of passing pwm_args as a parameter. Thierry, what's your opinion? > > Also, assuming the local copy is necessary, why initialize pargs ? > After all, pwm_get_args() just overwrites it. It's a leftover from a previous version where pwm_get_args was implemented this way: static inline void pwm_get_args(pwm, args) { if (pwm) *args = pwm->args } and this implementation was generating a lot of 'uninitialized variable' warnings. I just decided to drop the 'if (pwm)' test, because, IMO, this should be checked way before calling pwm_get_args() is called. Anyway, apparently I forgot to modify a few patches after this modification. Thanks for the review. Boris -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com