Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: fix a few issues with gpiochip_remove

[Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Octavian Purdila
> <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The current implementation of gpiochip_remove() does not check to see
>> if the GPIO pins are busy before removing the associated irqchip and
>> this is causing the following warning:
> (...)
>> A retry operation is needed in the case of MFD devices that bundles a
>> GPIO device and another device that is an indirect consumer of the
>> GPIO device (typical an I2C bus).
>
> We have just finalized a set of patches making gpiochip_remove()
> not return an error code, because it just must work.
>
> It seems like this patch want us to sort of reverse that whole train
> of work and go back to the old style of having gpiochip_remove()
> be able to fail :-/
>
> I would suggest that if this usecase is to be supported for thing
> like MFD devices, we need to introduce gpiochip_try_remove()
> in parallel with the current implementation, so that those drivers
> that actually want to retry the remove the chip can use that
> interface explicitly.
>
> Can you look into this option?
>
> Please also look over gpiochip_remove() as it looks right now
> in linux-next...
>

I was not aware of the changes to gpiochip_remove() when I sent this
patch and I do agree that it is better to have gpiochip_remove() not
be able to fail.

The main issue is actually with USB devices not necessarily MFD. If
the USB device is unplugged while IRQ GPIOs are requested then I see
the issues mentioned in the patch.

I will try to rework the patch to use the assumption that
gpiochip_remove() must not fail. That will likely need adding some
reference counting when calling gpiod_request() and gpiod_free().
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