On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset proposes a solution to describing the valid > pins for a pin controller in a generic way so that qcom > platforms can expose the pins that are really available. > > Typically, this has been done by having drivers and firmware > descriptions only use pins they know they have access to, and that > still works now because we no longer read the pin direction at > boot. But there are still some userspace drivers and debugfs facilities > that don't know what pins are available and attempt to read everything > they can. On qcom platforms, this may lead to a system hang, which isn't > very nice behavior, even if root is the only user that can trigger it. > > The proposal is to describe the valid pins and then not allow things to > cause problems by using the invalid pins. Obviously, the firmware may > mess this up, so this is mostly a nice to have feature or a safety net > so that things don't blow up easily. > > Changes from v3: > * Split out allocation of mask into subroutine > * Moved that allocation to kmalloc_array() > * Updated qcom driver to simplifiy ACPI logic and fix mem leak As both Timur and Andy are happy with this I applied these five patches for v4.17 and pushed to the test farm. Let's see what happens! Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
