Re: [PATCH 1/6] iio: chemical: scd30: add core driver

[Tomasz Duszynski]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 02:43:35PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:05 PM Tomasz Duszynski
> <tomasz.duszynski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:49:44PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:22 PM Tomasz Duszynski
> > > <tomasz.duszynski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > Add Sensirion SCD30 carbon dioxide core driver.
> > >
> > > And DocLink tar of Datasheet: with a link?
> >
> > I never do this. These files change their location way too often to be
> > worthwhile putting here. Nobody has that much time to fallow all this
> > and keep respective files up to date.
> >
> > But that doesn't mean I can't drop a link here.
> > https://developer.sensirion.com/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/sensirion/Dokumente/9.5_CO2/Sensirion_CO2_Sensors_SCD30_Interface_Description.pdf
>
> Yes, just make it a tag
>
> DocLink: ....
>
> ...
>
> > > > +int scd30_probe(struct device *dev, int irq, const char *name, void *priv,
> > > > +               int (*command)(struct scd30_state *state, enum scd30_cmd cmd,
> > > > +                              u16 arg, char *rsp, int size));
> > >
> > > My gosh.
> > > Please, supply proper structure member in priv or alike.
> >
> > Not sure it's worth the fuss. Wrapping all into structure means either
> > copying respective members or more dereferences later on.
>
> At least you may introduce a typedef, because above really hurts my eyes.
>

May be.

> ...
>
> > > > +enum {
> > > > +       CONC,
> > > > +       TEMP,
> > > > +       HR,
> > > > +};
> > >
> > > Way too generic names for anonymous enum.
> >
> > I'd argue that they are pretty well understood abbreviations in iio generally
> > and here specifically. But adding some prefix won't harm.
>
> Yes, prefix is what I was talking about.
>
> ...
>
> > > > +static int scd30_wait_meas_poll(struct scd30_state *state)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       int tries = 5;
> > > > +
> > > > +       while (tries--) {
> > > > +               int ret;
> > > > +               u16 val;
> > > > +
> > > > +               ret = scd30_command(state, CMD_MEAS_READY, 0, (char *)&val,
> > > > +                                   sizeof(val));
> > > > +               if (ret)
> > > > +                       return -EIO;
> > > > +
> > > > +               /* new measurement available */
> > > > +               if (val)
> > > > +                       break;
> > > > +
> > > > +               msleep_interruptible(state->meas_interval * 250);
> > > > +       }
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (tries == -1)
> > > > +               return -ETIMEDOUT;
> > >
> > > unsigned int tries = ...;
> > >
> > > do {
> > >  ...
> > > } while (--tries);
> > > if (!tries)
> > >   return ...;
> > >
> > > looks better and I guess less code in asm.
> > >
> >
> > You mean that one extra branch in case of while?
>
> There are few things:
> a) do {} while notation immediately tells that at least one cycle of
> body will be done (unconditionally);
> b) it makes a loop variable unsigned and no need to check for specific
> negative numbers;
> c) it quite likely will generate slightly better assembly code.
>
> >  But it comes to code
> > itself it looks more compact. And I am okay with that.
> >
> > > > +       return 0;
> > > > +}
>
> ...
>
> > > > +       if (kstrtou16(buf, 0, &val))
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > Shadowed error code. Don't do like this.
> >
> > Integer parsing either returns EINVAL or ERANGE. Passing the latter to
> > the user is not worth the trouble, especially because majority of writable attrs
> > have a fellow _available attr.
>
> It's simple a bad coding practice. Please, change.
>

Fair enough.

> > > > +       if (kstrtou16(buf, 0, &val))
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > Ditto.
> > >
> > > > +       if (kstrtou16(buf, 0, &val))
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > Ditto.
>
> ...
>
> > > > +       if (kstrtou16(buf, 0, &val))
> > > > +               return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > No shadowed error code, please. Check entire code.
>
> Same here.
>
> ...
>
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RW(pressure_comp, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RO(pressure_comp_available, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RW(meas_interval, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RO(meas_interval_available, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RW(asc, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RW(frc, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RO(frc_available, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_RW(temp_offset, 0);
> > > > +static IIO_CONST_ATTR(temp_offset_available, "[0 1 65535]");
> > > > +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_WO(reset, 0);
> > >
> > > Do you need all of them? Doesn't  IIO core provides a tons of helpers for these?
> > > Btw, where is ABI documentation? It's a show stopper.
> >
> > They are sensor specific and none falls into a category of iio generic
> > attrs. Maybe, except the measurement interval which could be represented as
> > a SAMP_FREQ.
>
> IIO ABI becomes already a big pile of nodes and I hope we will become
> stricter about adding new ones.
>

Try persuading vendors to use unified interfaces and problem will
disappear completely :).

> > But given that measurement interval spans from 2s to 1800s
> > it becomes a little bit awkward to have it in Hz.
>
> > As for ABI that's in
> > a separate patch.
>
> It's not good from bisectability point of view. If by some reason this
> patch or documentation patch gets reverted, the other one will be
> dangling.
> Please, unify them.
>

Huh? Reverting core and leaving leftovers would be wrong and pointless.

> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko