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Amitesh Singh
31963eb039 gpio: fix documentation for gpiod_unexport
Both gpio_export and gpio_free APIs are obsolete now.

Signed-off-by: Amitesh Singh <singh.amitesh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-09-12 14:53:33 +02:00
Bamvor Jian Zhang
d27c17285e gpio: fix abi regression in sysfs
We started to assign the gpio_device as parent for the sysfs
but this changes the expected layout of sysfs. Restore the
previous behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-25 16:08:45 +01:00
Linus Walleij
fdeb8e1547 gpio: reflect base and ngpio into gpio_device
Some information about the GPIO chip need to stay around also
after the gpio_chip has been removed and only the gpio_device
persist. The base and ngpio are such things, for example we
don't want a new chip arriving to overlap the number space
of a dangling gpio_device, and the chardev may still query
the device for the number of lines etc.

Note that the code that assigns base and insert gpio_device
into the global list no longer check for a missing gpio_chip:
we respect the number space allocated by any other gpio_device.

As a consequence of the gdev being referenced directly from
the gpio_desc, we need to verify it differently from all
in-kernel API calls that fall through to direct queries to
the gpio_chip vtable: we first check that desc is !NULL, then
that desc->gdev is !NULL, then, if desc->gdev->chip is NULL,
we *BAIL OUT* without any error, so as to manage the case
where operations are requested on a device that is gone.

These checks were non-uniform and partly missing in the past:
so to simplify: create the macros VALIDATE_DESC() that will
return -EINVAL if the desc or desc->gdev is missing and just
0 if the chip is gone, and conversely VALIDATE_DESC_VOID()
for the case where the function does not return an error.
By using these macros, we get warning messages about missing
gdev with reference to the right function in the kernel log.

Despite the macro business this simplifies the code and make
it more readable than if we copy/paste the same descriptor
checking code into all code ABI call sites (IMHO).

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-11 20:29:46 +01:00
Linus Walleij
1c3cdb1861 gpio: move descriptors into gpio_device
We need gpio_device to hold the descriptors so that they can
be lifecycled with the struct gpio_device held from userspace.
Move the descriptor array into gpio_device. Also rename it from
"desc" (singularis) to "descs" (pluralis) to reflect the fact
that it is an array.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-11 20:29:45 +01:00
Linus Walleij
afbc4f312b gpio: move sysfs mock device to the gpio_device
Since gpio_device is the struct that survives if the backing
gpio_chip is removed, move the sysfs mock device to this state
container so it becomes part of the dangling state of the
GPIO device on removal.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-11 18:16:54 +01:00
Linus Walleij
ff2b135922 gpio: make the gpiochip a real device
GPIO chips have been around for years, but were never real devices,
instead they were piggy-backing on a parent device (such as a
platform_device or amba_device) but this was always optional.
GPIO chips could also exist without any device at all, with its
struct device *parent (ex *dev) pointer being set to null.

When sysfs was in use, a mock device would be created, with the
optional parent assigned, or just floating orphaned with NULL
as parent.

If sysfs is active, it will use this device as parent.

We now create a gpio_device struct containing a real
struct device and move the subsystem over to using that. The
list of struct gpio_chip:s is augmented to hold struct
gpio_device:s and we find gpio_chips:s by first looking up
the struct gpio_device.

The struct gpio_device is designed to stay around even if the
gpio_chip is removed, so as to satisfy users in userspace
that need a backing data structure to hold the state of the
session initiated with e.g. a character device even if there is
no physical chip anymore.

From this point on, gpiochips are devices.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-09 11:03:53 +01:00
Linus Walleij
58383c7842 gpio: change member .dev to .parent
The name .dev in a struct is normally reserved for a struct device
that is let us say a superclass to the thing described by the struct.
struct gpio_chip stands out by confusingly using a struct device *dev
to point to the parent device (such as a platform_device) that
represents the hardware. As we want to give gpio_chip:s real devices,
this is not working. We need to rename this member to parent.

This was done by two coccinelle scripts, I guess it is possible to
combine them into one, but I don't know such stuff. They look like
this:

@@
struct gpio_chip *var;
@@
-var->dev
+var->parent

and:

@@
struct gpio_chip var;
@@
-var.dev
+var.parent

and:

@@
struct bgpio_chip *var;
@@
-var->gc.dev
+var->gc.parent

Plus a few instances of bgpio that I couldn't figure out how
to teach Coccinelle to rewrite.

This patch hits all over the place, but I *strongly* prefer this
solution to any piecemal approaches that just exercise patch
mechanics all over the place. It mainly hits drivers/gpio and
drivers/pinctrl which is my own backyard anyway.

Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-11-19 09:24:35 +01:00
Johan Hovold
cef1717b7f gpio: sysfs: move irq trigger flags to class-device data
Move irq trigger flags, which as sysfs-interface specific, to the class
device data.

This avoids accessing the gpio-descriptor flags field using non-atomic
operations without any locking, and allows for a more clear separation
of the sysfs interface from gpiolib core.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:57 +02:00
Johan Hovold
427fdeef50 gpio: sysfs: remove FLAG_SYSFS_DIR
Remove FLAG_SYSFS_DIR, which is sysfs-interface specific, and store it
in the class-device data instead.

Note that the flag is only used during export.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:52 +02:00
Johan Hovold
2f323b8567 gpio: sysfs: rename active-low helper
Rename active-low helper using common prefix.

Also remove unnecessary manipulation of value argument.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:48 +02:00
Johan Hovold
72eba6f66a gpio: sysfs: fix race between gpiod export and unexport
Make sure to deregister the class device (and release the irq) while
holding the sysfs lock in gpio_unexport to prevent racing with
gpio_export.

Note that this requires the recently introduced per-gpio locking to
avoid a deadlock with the kernfs active protection when waiting for the
attribute operations to drain during deregistration.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:44 +02:00
Johan Hovold
6ffcb79714 gpio: sysfs: use per-gpio locking
Add a per-gpio mutex to serialise attribute operations rather than use
one global mutex for all gpios and chips.

Having a single global lock for all gpios in a system adds unnecessary
latency to the sysfs interface, and especially when having gpio
controllers connected over slow buses.

Now that the global gpio-sysfs interrupt table is gone and with per-gpio
data in place, we can easily switch to using a more fine-grained locking
scheme.

Keep the global mutex to serialise the global (class) operations of gpio
export and unexport and chip removal.

Also document the locking assumptions made.

Note that this is also needed to fix a race between gpiod_export and
gpiod_unexport.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:39 +02:00
Johan Hovold
56d30ec14c gpio: sysfs: clean up gpiod_export_link locking
Drop unnecessary locking from gpiod_export_link. If the class device has
not already been unregistered, class_find_device returns the ref-counted
class device so there's no need for locking.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:35 +02:00
Johan Hovold
e4339ce323 gpio: sysfs: clean up edge_store
Remove goto from success path.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:31 +02:00
Johan Hovold
2ec74a9593 gpio: sysfs: split irq allocation and deallocation
Add separate helper functions for irq request and free.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:27 +02:00
Johan Hovold
b91e18076f gpio: sysfs: only call irq helper if needed
Only call irq helper if actually reconfiguring interrupt state.

This is a preparatory step in introducing separate gpio-irq request and
free functions.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:23 +02:00
Johan Hovold
a08f5c21f4 gpio: sysfs: clean up interrupt-interface implementation
Store the value sysfs entry in the gpiod data rather than in a global
table accessed through an index stored in the overloaded gpio-descriptor
flag field.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:19 +02:00
Johan Hovold
0f62850808 gpio: sysfs: remove redundant gpio-descriptor parameters
Remove redundant gpio-descriptor parameters from sysfs_set_active_low and
gpio_setup_irq.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:16 +02:00
Johan Hovold
c43960fbcc gpio: sysfs: add gpiod class-device data
Add gpiod class-device data.

This is a first step in getting rid of the insane gpio-descriptor flag
overloading, backward irq-interface implementation, and course grained
sysfs-interface locking (a single static mutex for every operation on
all exported gpios in a system).

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:12 +02:00
Johan Hovold
f0b7866a02 gpio: sysfs: remove redundant export tests
The attribute operations will never be called for an unregistered device
so remove redundant checks for FLAG_EXPORT.

Note that kernfs will also guarantee that any active sysfs operation has
finished before the attribute is removed during deregistration.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:08 +02:00
Johan Hovold
54d9acd754 gpio: sysfs: release irq after class-device deregistration
Make sure to release any irq only after the class device has been
deregistered.

This avoids a race between gpiod_unexport and edge_store, where an irq
could be allocated just before the gpio class device is deregistered
without relying on FLAG_EXPORT and the global sysfs lock.

Note that there is no need to hold the sysfs lock when releasing the irq
after the class device is gone as kernfs will prevent further attribute
operations.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:47:03 +02:00
Johan Hovold
6beac9d1aa gpio: sysfs: use DEVICE_ATTR macros
Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO and DEVICE_ATTR_RW rather than specifying masks and
callbacks directly.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:59 +02:00
Johan Hovold
166a85e442 gpio: remove gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low
Remove gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low (and gpio_sysfs_set_active_low) which
allowed code to change the polarity of a gpio line even after it had
been exported through sysfs.

Drivers should not care, and generally does not know, about gpio-line
polarity which is a hardware feature that needs to be described by
firmware.

It is currently possible to define gpio-line polarity in device-tree and
acpi firmware or using platform data. Userspace can also change the
polarity through sysfs.

Note that drivers using the legacy gpio interface could still use
GPIOF_ACTIVE_LOW to change the polarity before exporting the gpio.

There are no in-kernel users of this interface.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@zh-kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:53 +02:00
Johan Hovold
426577bd88 gpio: sysfs: rename gpiochip registration functions
Rename the gpio-chip export/unexport functions to the more descriptive
names gpiochip_sysfs_register and gpiochip_sysfs_unregister.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:49 +02:00
Johan Hovold
6a4b6b0a3b gpio: sysfs: clean up chip class-device handling
Clean gpio-chip class device registration and deregistration.

The class device is registered when a gpio-chip is added (or from
gpiolib_sysfs_init post-core init call), and deregistered when the chip
is removed.

Store the class device in struct gpio_chip directly rather than do a
class-device lookup on deregistration. This also removes the need for
the exported flag.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:44 +02:00
Johan Hovold
3ff74be5c1 gpio: sysfs: reduce gpiochip-export locking scope
Reduce scope of sysfs_lock protection during chip export and unexport,
which is only needed to prevent gpiod (re-)exports during chip removal.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:40 +02:00
Johan Hovold
cecf58ab55 gpio: sysfs: preparatory clean ups
Put the recently introduced gpio-chip pointer to some more use in
gpiod_export.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:36 +02:00
Johan Hovold
52176d0d3b gpio: sysfs: fix redundant lock-as-irq handling
Drivers should call gpiochip_lock_as_irq (which prevents the pin
direction from being changed) in their irq_request_resources callbacks
but some drivers currently fail to do so.

Instead a second, explicit and often redundant call to lock-as-irq is
made by the sysfs-interface implementation after an irq has been
requested.

Move the explicit call before the irq-request to match the unlock done
after the irq is later released. Note that this also fixes an irq leak,
should the explicit call ever have failed.

Also add a comment about removing the redundant call once the broken
drivers have been fixed.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-05-12 10:46:31 +02:00
Johan Hovold
483d821108 gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug
Unregister GPIOs requested through sysfs at chip remove to avoid leaking
the associated memory and sysfs entries.

The stale sysfs entries prevented the gpio numbers from being exported
when the gpio range was later reused (e.g. at device reconnect).

This also fixes the related module-reference leak.

Note that kernfs makes sure that any on-going sysfs operations finish
before the class devices are unregistered and that further accesses
fail.

The chip exported flag is used to prevent gpiod exports during removal.
This also makes it harder to trigger, but does not fix, the related race
between gpiochip_remove and export_store, which is really a race with
gpiod_request that needs to be addressed separately.

Also note that this would prevent the crashes (e.g. NULL-dereferences)
at reconnect that affects pre-3.18 kernels, as well as use-after-free on
operations on open attribute files on pre-3.14 kernels (prior to
kernfs).

Fixes: d8f388d8dc ("gpio: sysfs interface")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.27: 01cca93a94
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-04-29 23:42:47 +02:00
Johan Hovold
49d2ca84e4 gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low
Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop
reference to device returned by class_find_device when setting the
gpio-line polarity.

Fixes: 0769746183 ("gpiolib: add support for changing value polarity
in sysfs")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.33
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-01-30 10:29:33 +01:00
Johan Hovold
0f303db08d gpio: sysfs: fix memory leak in gpiod_export_link
Fix memory leak in the gpio sysfs interface due to failure to drop
reference to device returned by class_find_device when creating a link.

Fixes: a4177ee7f1 ("gpiolib: allow exported GPIO nodes to be named
using sysfs links")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.32
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-01-30 10:28:27 +01:00
Johan Hovold
ebbeba120a gpio: sysfs: fix gpio attribute-creation race
Fix attribute-creation race with userspace by using the default group
to create also the contingent gpio device attributes.

Fixes: d8f388d8dc ("gpio: sysfs interface")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-01-15 17:20:56 +01:00
Johan Hovold
0915e6feb3 gpio: sysfs: fix gpio device-attribute leak
The gpio device attributes were never destroyed when the gpio was
unexported (or on export failures).

Use device_create_with_groups() to create the default device attributes
of the gpio class device. Note that this also fixes the
attribute-creation race with userspace for these attributes.

Remove contingent attributes in export error path and on unexport.

Fixes: d8f388d8dc ("gpio: sysfs interface")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.27+
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-01-15 17:20:15 +01:00
Johan Hovold
121b6a7995 gpio: sysfs: fix gpio-chip device-attribute leak
The gpio-chip device attributes were never destroyed when the device was
removed.

Fix by using device_create_with_groups() to create the device attributes
of the chip class device.

Note that this also fixes the attribute-creation race with userspace.

Fixes: d8f388d8dc ("gpio: sysfs interface")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# v2.6.27+
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-01-15 17:19:45 +01:00
Alexandre Courbot
8e53b0f190 gpio: remove const modifier from gpiod_get_direction()
Although gpiod_get_direction() can be considered side-effect free for
consumers, its internals involve setting or clearing bits in the
affected GPIO descriptor, for which we need to force-cast the const
descriptor variable to non-const. This could lead to incorrect behavior
if the compiler decides to optimize here, so remove this const
attribute. The intent is to make gpiod_get_direction() private anyway,
so it does not really matter.

Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-11-28 14:43:36 +01:00
Alexandre Courbot
e3a2e87893 gpio: rename gpio_lock_as_irq to gpiochip_lock_as_irq
This function actually operates on a gpio_chip, so its prefix should
reflect that fact for consistency with other functions defined in
gpio/driver.h.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-10-28 17:30:59 +01:00
Alexandre Courbot
7fd834ad77 gpio: remove useless check in gpiolib_sysfs_init()
An iterator variable cannot be NULL in its loop.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-07-24 16:03:45 +02:00
Alexandre Courbot
d74be6dfea gpio: remove gpiod_lock/unlock_as_irq()
gpio_lock/unlock_as_irq() are working with (chip, offset) arguments and
are thus not using the old integer namespace. Therefore, there is no
reason to have gpiod variants of these functions working with
descriptors, especially since the (chip, offset) tuple is more suitable
to the users of these functions (GPIO drivers, whereas GPIO descriptors
are targeted at GPIO consumers).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-07-23 17:43:24 +02:00
Alexandre Courbot
14141a9352 gpio: simplify gpiochip_export()
For some reason gpiochip_export() would invalidate all the descriptors
of a chip if exporting it to sysfs failed. This does not appear as
necessary. Remove that part of the code.

While we are at it, add a note about the non-safety of temporarily
releasing a spinlock in the middle of the loop that protects its
iterator, and explain why this is done.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-07-23 17:37:51 +02:00
Alexandre Courbot
0eb4c6c267 gpio: move sysfs support to its own file
sysfs support is currently entangled within the core GPIO support, while
it should relly just be a (privileged) user of the integer GPIO API.
This patch is a first step towards making the gpiolib code more readable
by splitting it into logical parts.

Move all sysfs support to their own source file, and share static
members of gpiolib that need to be in the private gpiolib.h file. In
the future we will want to put some of them back into gpiolib.c, but this
first patch let us at least identify them.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-07-09 12:22:57 +02:00