Re: [PATCH 1/9] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: dynamically initialize iio_chan_spec data

[Francesco Lavra]

On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 11:16 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:27:44 +0100
> Francesco Lavra <flavra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Using the ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL_ACC() macro as a static initializer
> > for the iio_chan_spec struct arrays makes all sensors advertise
> > channel event capabilities regardless of whether they actually
> > support event generation. And if userspace tries to configure
> > accelerometer wakeup events on a sensor device that does not
> > support them (e.g. LSM6DS0), st_lsm6dsx_write_event() dereferences
> > a NULL pointer when trying to write to the wakeup register.
> > Replace usage of the ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL_ACC() and
> > ST_LSM6DSX_CHANNEL() macros with dynamic allocation and
> > initialization of struct iio_chan_spec arrays, where the
> > st_lsm6dsx_event structure is only used for sensors that support
> > wakeup events; besides fixing the above bug, this serves as a
> > preliminary step for adding support for more event types.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <flavra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In cases where there are only a small number of options for what the
> channel
> arrays should contain, my normal preference would be more data over
> moving
> the complexity into code.  That is have two struct iio_chan_spec arrays
> and
> pick between them based on availability of the interrupt.
> 
> I haven't checked the whole series yet, but how many channel arrays
> would we need to support the features you are introducing here? That is
> how many different combinations exist in the supported chips?

In the current code there are 3 struct iio_chan_spec arrays; we would need
one more to fix the above bug, and one more to add tap event support; so a
total of 5 arrays (each of length 4).
As for struct iio_event_spec, the current code has one array (of length 1),
and to add tap event support we would need another array (of length 2).

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