Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] gpio: notify user-space about config changes in the kernel

From: Kent Gibson
Date: Sun Oct 20 2024 - 07:52:04 EST


On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:10:08AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> We currently only emit events on changed line config to user-space on
> changes made from user-space. Users have no way of getting notified
> about in-kernel changes. This series improves the situation and also
> contains a couple other related improvements.
>
> This is a reworked approach which gets and stores as much info (all of
> it actually, except for the pinctrl state) the moment the event occurrs
> but moves the actual queueing of the event on the kfifo to a dedicated
> high-priority, ordered workqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Kent.