Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] remoteproc: Add sysfs interface

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Mon Oct 31 2016 - 20:31:44 EST


On Thu 27 Oct 07:10 PDT 2016, Matt Redfearn wrote:

>
> On 19/10/16 13:05, Matt Redfearn wrote:
> >It is often desireable to boot a remote processor with different
> >firmware files, depending on the needs of the system at a particular
> >time. This series adds a sysfs interface to the remoteproc core,
> >exposing interfaces to manipulate the remote processor. One interface is
> >the "state" file which performs the same function as the one in debugfs
> >(which is removed later in the series). The other is a "firmware" file
> >which allows retrieval of the name of the running firmware, and allows a
> >new firmware to be loaded when written, as long as the remote processor
> >is currently stopped.
> >
> >Some groundwork must be laid first, changing the storage mechanism of
> >the firmware name such that it can be rewritten easily, then that is
> >wired up to the new sysfs interface.
> >
> >This series is based on v4.9-rc1
> >
> >
> >Changes in v3:
> >Drop call to rproc_add_virtio_devices from sysfs firmware_store
> >Use strcspn to find firmware name length
> >Explicit indexes for state strings
> >
> >Changes in v2:
> >Have firmware_store perform the necessary steps inline.
> >Use sysfs_streq when dealing with writes to sysfs files
> >
> >Matt Redfearn (2):
> > remoteproc: Add a sysfs interface for firmware and state
> > remoteproc: debugfs: Remove state entry which is duplicated is sysfs
> >
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc | 50 ++++++++
> > drivers/remoteproc/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 3 +
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c | 71 -----------
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h | 5 +
> > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 6 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc
> > create mode 100644 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_sysfs.c
> >
>
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Is this version of the patchset ok? Any feedback welcome :-)
>

Hi Matt,

I was hoping for some comments or verification from others, so I
conveniently did let it hang out in my TODO list.

I think the new interface looks good and have merged the two patches!

Regards,
Bjorn