Re: [PATCH v5] gpio: sim: don't fiddle with GPIOLIB private members

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Sep 11 2023 - 18:22:13 EST


On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:07:40PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We access internals of struct gpio_device and struct gpio_desc because
> it's easier but it can actually be avoided and we're working towards a
> better encapsulation of GPIO data structures across the kernel so let's
> start at home.
>
> Instead of checking gpio_desc flags, let's just track the requests of
> GPIOs in the driver. We also already store the information about
> direction of simulated lines.
>
> For kobjects needed by sysfs callbacks: we can iterate over the children
> devices of the top-level platform device and compare their fwnodes
> against the one passed to the init function from probe.
>
> While at it: fix one line break and remove the untrue part about
> configfs callbacks using dev_get_drvdata() from a comment.

(Just wondering if you used --patience)

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko