Re: [PATCH 1/3] cdev: Finish the cdev api with queued mode support

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:46 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The subject doesn't make any sense to me.
>
> But thn again queued sound really weird.  You just have a managed
> API with a refcount and synchronization, right?

Correct.

"queue" was in reference to the way q_usage_count behaves, but yes,
just refcount + synchronization is all this is.

>
> procfs and debugfs already support these kind of managed ops, kinda sad
> to duplicate this concept yet another time.

Oh, I didn't realize there were managed ops there, I'll go take a look
and see if cdev can adopt that scheme.

> > +static long cdev_queued_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>
> Overly long line.
>
> > +__must_check int __cdev_register_queued(struct cdev *cdev, struct module *owner,
> > +                                     dev_t dev, unsigned count,
> > +                                     const struct cdev_operations *qops)
> > +{
> > +     int rc;
> > +
> > +     if (!qops->ioctl || !owner)
> > +             return -EINVAL;
>
> Why is the ioctl method mandatory?

Yeah, that can drop. It was there more to ask the question about
whether cdev should be mandating ioctls with pointer arguments and
taking the need to specify the compat fallback away from a driver
responsibility.