Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] tty: add new helper function tty_get_tiocm

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 01:28:08PM +0200, Florian Eckert wrote:
> The struct 'tty_struct' has a callback to read the status flags of the tty
> if the tty driver provides them. So fare, the data is transferred directly
> to userspace with the function 'tty_tiocmget'. This function cannot be
> used to evaluate the status line of the tty interface in the ledtrig-tty
> trigger. To make this possible, a new function must be added that does
> not immediately pass the data on to userspace.
> 
> The new function 'tty_get_tiocm' only returns the status register.
> This information can then be processed further in the ledtrig-tty
> trigger.

Writing changelogs are hard.  You are including a lot of information in
here that really doesn't need to be, as you are focusing on your
specific use case, which is fine, but you are creating a generic
function.

This can be simpler, how about something like this:

	There is no in-kernel function to get the status register of a
	tty device like the TIOCMGET ioctl returns to userspace.  Create
	a new function, tty_get_tiocm(), to obtain the status register
	that other portions of the kernel can call if they need this
	information, and move the existing internal tty_tiocmget()
	function to use this interface.

Sound good?

The code portion looks fine to me, thanks for doing this.

greg k-h