Re: [RFC] ACPI: Add GPIO-signaled event simulator.

[Tomasz Nowicki]

On 12.08.2014 16:15, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 02:36:02PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Tomasz Nowicki
> > > <tomasz.nowicki@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > GPIO signaled events is quite new thing in Linux kernel.
> > > > AFAIK, there are not many board which can take advantage of it.
> > > > However, GPIO events are very useful feature during work on ACPI
> > > > subsystems.
> > >
> > > Overall this seems like a pretty nice debug feature.
> > >
> > > > This commit emulates GPIO h/w behaviour and consists on read/write
> > > > operation to debugfs file. GPIO device instance is still required in DSDT
> > > > table along with _AEI resources and event methods.
> > > >
> > > > Reading from file provides pin to GPIO device map e.g. :
> > > > $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event
> > > > GPIO device name: /__SB.GPI0
> > > > Available GPIO pin map:
> > > > /__SB.GPI0 <-> pin 0x100
> > > >
> > > > Based on that, user can trigger method corresponding to device pin number:
> > > > $ echo "/__SB.GPI0 0x100" > /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event
> > >
> > > I need input from Rafael and Mika as to whether this is a
> > > good interface.
> >
> > Maybe it would make sense to move this into drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c
> > and hide it behind some Kconfig entry?
>
> I actually like that this feature is contained in its own file - it
> makes it easier to Kconfig-isolate and keeps the base ACPI code short
> and readable. We spent some effort decoupling the sysfs and legacy
> interfaces from the main gpiolib source file, let's keep that policy
> going. ;)

I will keep that isolation.

> Maybe the source file could be renamed to highlight the fact this is
> an ACPI-only feature, e.g. gpio-acpi-evt-emu.c? (let's also use '-' as
> separator since this is what all GPIO drivers do).

Yes, I will rename it as you suggested. I will address all comments 
based on feedback I have got and send another version. Thanks!

Regards,
Tomasz Nowicki
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