Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] gpiolib: notify user-space about in-kernel line state changes

Kent Gibson
2024-10-14T08:42:58Z

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 10:13:59AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:24 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 11:10:27AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > We currently only notify user-space about line config changes that are
> > > made from user-space. Any kernel config changes are not signalled.
> > >
> > > Let's improve the situation by emitting the events closer to the source.
> > > To that end let's call the relevant notifier chain from the functions
> > > setting direction, gpiod_set_config(), gpiod_set_consumer_name() and
> > > gpiod_toggle_active_low(). This covers all the options that we can
> > > inform the user-space about. We ignore events which don't have
> > > corresponding flags exported to user-space on purpose - otherwise the
> > > user would see a config-changed event but the associated line-info would
> > > remain unchanged.
> > >
> > > gpiod_direction_output/input() can be called from any context.
> > > Fortunately, we now emit line state events using an atomic notifier
> > > chain, so it's no longer an issue.
> > >
> > > Let's also add non-notifying wrappers around the direction setters in
> > > order to not emit superfluous reconfigure events when requesting the
> > > lines as the initial config should be part of the request notification.
> > >
> >
> > So lines requested from kernel space will result in a LINE_REQUESTED and
> > then a series of LINE_CHANGED_CONFIG? Whereas for lines requested from
> > userspace those will be collapsed into the one LINE_REQUESTED event?
>
> No, why? I added the notification about the request to
> gpiod_find_and_request() which is called by all the kernel getters and
> it already configures all the flags without emitting events and calls
> the non-notify variant of the direction setter. When a kernel driver
> requests a GPIO, I only see a single event UNLESS after the
> gpiod_get() call returns, it sets direction or changes config - just
> like user-space.
>

Oh, ok, I was assuming there could be others using gpiolib the same way
cdev does. So cdev is the only one that takes the gpiod_request(),
gpiod_direction_output() etc path? All good then.

Cheers,
Kent.