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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] iio: core: register chardev only if needed
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On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 16:55 +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> [External]
>
> On 4/15/20 3:56 PM, Ardelean, Alexandru wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 19:06 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > [External]
> > >
> > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:36:56 +0300
> > > Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The final intent is to localize all buffer ops into the
> > > > industrialio-buffer.c file, to be able to add support for multiple
> > > > buffers
> > > > per IIO device.
> > > >
> > > > We only need a chardev if we need to support buffers and/or events.
> > > >
> > > > With this change, a chardev will be created:
> > > > 1. if there is an IIO buffer attached OR
> > > > 2. if there is an event_interface configured
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise, no chardev will be created.
> > > > Quite a lot of IIO devices don't really need a chardev, so this is a
> > > > minor
> > > > improvement to the IIO core, as the IIO device will take up fewer
> > > > resources.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Changelog v1 -> v2:
> > > > * split away from series 'iio: core,buffer: re-organize chardev
> > > > creation';
> > > > i'm getting the feeling that this has some value on it's own;
> > > > no idea if it needs 'Fixes' tag; it is a bit fuzzy to point to a
> > > > patch
> > > > which this would be fixed by this; i'm guessing it would be fine
> > > > without one
> > > I'd argue it's an 'optimization' rather than a fix :)
> > >
> > > Still looks good to me but I'd like it to sit for a little while to
> > > see if anyone points out something we are both missing!
> > >
> > This is not good.
> > It seems that I did not properly test all cases.
> > I had to break a device to not have an event_interface to notice that the
> > sysfs
> > doesn't get instantiated either because device_add is missing.
> >
> > Will do another try.
>
> I think you also have to make the `indio_dev->dev.devt = ...`
> conditional. Or conditionally use device_add() instead of device_add_cdev().
>
> If you go for the former you need to call cdev_device_del()
> unconditionally, for the latter call device_del() or cdev_device_del()
> depending on whether the cdev was registered.

I was thinking of conditionally using cdev_device_add/del() somehow.
But, this complicates the rest of the series a bit.
And I am thinking of how to simplify it.

Anyway, this will go back to the series ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>
> - Lars
>
>
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