These patches fix a number of issues with the gpio sysfs interface, including - fix memory leaks and crashes on device hotplug - straighten out the convoluted locking - reduce sysfs-interface latencies through more fine-grained locking - more clearly separate the sysfs-interface implementation from gpiolib core The first patch is marked for stable and could go into 4.1. [ May already have been applied but not pushed by Linus, but included in v2 for completeness. ] Unfortunately we can't just kill the gpio sysfs interface, but these patches will make it more manageable and should allow us to implement a new user-space interface while maintaining the old one (for a while at least) without losing our sanity. Note that there is still a race between chip remove and gpiod_request (and therefore sysfs export), which needs to be fixed separately (for instance as part of a generic solution to chip hotplugging). Johan Changes since v1: - Keep explicit lock-as-irq call in sysfs and add comment that it should be removed once the broken drivers have been fixed (patch 3/23). - Add comment that the class-device field of struct gpiochip is used by the sysfs interface (patch 6/23). - Add "sysfs"-infix to gpiochip sysfs registration functions as suggested by Alexandre (patch 7/23). Johan Hovold (23): gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug gpio: clean up gpiochip_remove gpio: sysfs: fix redundant lock-as-irq handling gpio: sysfs: preparatory clean ups gpio: sysfs: reduce gpiochip-export locking scope gpio: sysfs: clean up chip class-device handling gpio: sysfs: rename gpiochip registration functions gpio: remove gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low gpio: sysfs: use DEVICE_ATTR macros gpio: sysfs: release irq after class-device deregistration gpio: sysfs: remove redundant export tests gpio: sysfs: add gpiod class-device data gpio: sysfs: remove redundant gpio-descriptor parameters gpio: sysfs: clean up interrupt-interface implementation gpio: sysfs: only call irq helper if needed gpio: sysfs: split irq allocation and deallocation gpio: sysfs: clean up edge_store gpio: sysfs: clean up gpiod_export_link locking gpio: sysfs: use per-gpio locking gpio: sysfs: fix race between gpiod export and unexport gpio: sysfs: rename active-low helper gpio: sysfs: remove FLAG_SYSFS_DIR gpio: sysfs: move irq trigger flags to class-device data Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt | 9 - Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt | 8 - Documentation/zh_CN/gpio.txt | 8 - drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 578 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 18 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 16 +- include/asm-generic/gpio.h | 5 - include/linux/gpio.h | 7 - include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 6 - include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 4 +- 10 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 369 deletions(-) -- 2.0.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
