Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Introduce the Counter subsystem

From: William Breathitt Gray
Date: Tue Oct 16 2018 - 22:01:14 EST


On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 06:49:49PM -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Changes in v9:
> - Prefix exported symbols with "counter_" to make counter namespace
> explicit and clear
> - Replace scnprintf and snprintf lines with sprintf in 104-quad-8.c
> since we're dealing with sysfs files
>
> This revision is functionally identical to the last; changes in this
> version were made to improve code clarity. Andrew Morton suggested
> improving the names of the exported symbols to clean up the Counter
> subsytem namespace. This revision adds a "counter_" prefix to the
> exported symbols to keep the namespace tidy and these symbols as
> clearly part of the Counter subsystem.
>
> Andrew Morton also brought up a good point that the Generic Counter
> "signal" terminology could conflict with the existing established use of
> the term in other areas of the Linux kernel. I've changed the major
> exported symbols in counter.h that used the "signal_" naming covention
> to now use a "counter_signal_" naming convention in order to help
> prevent this confusion; I've made similar changes to symbols in
> counter.c as well. If this naming still causes trouble, we can consider
> alternative names for this component.
>
> William Breathitt Gray
>
> Benjamin Gaignard (2):
> counter: Add STM32 Timer quadrature encoder
> dt-bindings: counter: Document stm32 quadrature encoder
>
> Fabrice Gasnier (2):
> counter: stm32-lptimer: add counter device
> dt-bindings: counter: Adjust dt-bindings for STM32 lptimer move
>
> William Breathitt Gray (7):
> counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface
> counter: Documentation: Add Generic Counter sysfs documentation
> docs: Add Generic Counter interface documentation
> iio: 104-quad-8: Update license boilerplate
> counter: 104-quad-8: Add Generic Counter interface support
> counter: 104-quad-8: Documentation: Add Generic Counter sysfs
> documentation
> iio: counter: Add deprecation markings for IIO Counter attributes
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter | 230 +++
> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter-104-quad-8 | 36 +
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 8 +
> .../testing/sysfs-bus-iio-counter-104-quad-8 | 16 +
> .../{iio => }/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.txt | 0
> .../bindings/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.txt | 31 +
> .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/stm32-lptimer.txt | 2 +-
> .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/stm32-timers.txt | 7 +
> Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 342 ++++
> Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 +
> MAINTAINERS | 15 +-
> drivers/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/{iio => }/counter/104-quad-8.c | 782 +++++++-
> drivers/counter/Kconfig | 51 +
> drivers/{iio => }/counter/Makefile | 5 +-
> drivers/counter/counter.c | 1567 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/{iio => }/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.c | 361 +++-
> drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c | 390 ++++
> drivers/iio/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/iio/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/iio/counter/Kconfig | 34 -
> include/linux/counter.h | 510 ++++++
> include/linux/counter_enum.h | 45 +
> 24 files changed, 4352 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter-104-quad-8
> rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{iio => }/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.txt (100%)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
> rename drivers/{iio => }/counter/104-quad-8.c (44%)
> create mode 100644 drivers/counter/Kconfig
> rename drivers/{iio => }/counter/Makefile (46%)
> create mode 100644 drivers/counter/counter.c
> rename drivers/{iio => }/counter/stm32-lptimer-cnt.c (48%)
> create mode 100644 drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/iio/counter/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 include/linux/counter.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/counter_enum.h
>
> --
> 2.18.0

Hi Greg,

It's been some time now since this patchset was submitted so I want to
check up and see if I should try to merge it in through IIO or some
other subsystem, or wait for now for additional reviews.

Sincerely,

William Breathitt Gray