Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: notify user-space about line status changes after flags are set

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:30:36AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:15 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Since the flags can be configured in different ways depending on how the
> > line is being requested - we need to call the notifier chain in different
> > places separately.
> 
> Ooops.
> 
> > This comes late in the release cycle but I only recently got down to
> > writing libgpiod support for this new ioctl(). When writing test cases
> > I noticed this doesn't really work as expected.
> 
> This is why I am so grateful about the tests you are doing with
> libgpiod! We actually find these problems quickly and not after
> years. Thanks!
> 

This forces me to add tests for chardev in MRAA ;) (Don't ask me about other
interfaces)

Thanks,
Mani

> > This patch fixes the
> > issue I identified this week. There may be more coming the following
> > week though...
> 
> I will pull in your pull request once the next -rc is out as I had already
> sent my first pull request, but do not hesitate to bug me about this.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij