Re: [PATCH 000/102] Convert drivers to explicit reset API

Linus Walleij
2017-07-23T18:41:48Z

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> wrote:

>>> What about reset_control_get(struct device *, const char *, int flags)
>>> to replace all those variants ?
>>
>> While I like how this looks, unfortunately (devm_)reset_control_get
>> already exists without the flags, so we can't change to that with a
>> gentle transition.
>
> This was done for gpiod_get() and its flags argument with horrifying
> #define-ry, which thankfully was completely hidden from users.

For your reference:

commit bae48da237fcedd7ad09569025483b988635efb7
"gpiolib: add gpiod_get() and gpiod_put() functions"

commit 39b2bbe3d715cf5013b5c48695ccdd25bd3bf120
"gpio: add flags argument to gpiod_get*() functions"

commit 0dbc8b7afef6e4fddcfebcbacbeb269a0a3b06d5
"gpio: move varargs hack outside #ifdef GPIOLIB"

commit b17d1bf16cc72a374a48d748940f700009d40ff4
"gpio: make flags mandatory for gpiod_get functions"

Retrospectively ... was that really a good idea... it was a LOT
of trouble to add a flag, maybe it had been better to try and
just slam all users in a single go.

But it worked.

Yours,
Linus Walleij