Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: don't use gpiochip_get_direction() when registering a chip

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:56:23PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> During chip registration we should neither check the return value of
> gc->get_direction() nor hold the SRCU lock when calling it. The former
> is because pin controllers may have pins set to alternate functions and
> return errors from their get_direction() callbacks. That's alright - we
> should default to the safe INPUT state and not bail-out. The latter is
> not needed because we haven't registered the chip yet so there's nothing
> to protect against dynamic removal. In fact: we currently hit a lockdep
> splat. Revert to calling the gc->get_direction() callback directly not
> not checking its value.

...

I think the below code deserves a commit (as a summary of the above commit
message).

> +		if (gc->get_direction && gpiochip_line_is_valid(gc, desc_index))
> +			assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags,
> +				   !gc->get_direction(gc, desc_index));
> +		else
>  			assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT,
>  				   &desc->flags, !gc->direction_input);

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

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko