Re: [PATCH v9 1/1] gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, at 15:51, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > To prove this point, I even moved the gpio-virtuser driver I'm working
>> > on to drivers/misc/ too as it isn't a GPIO provider either and merely
>> > a GPIO consumer with a one-shot user-space interface not conforming to
>> > any standards.
>>
>> We *could* just create drivers/gpio/consumers/* and an entry into the
>> top-level drivers/Kconfig to have those appear right under the GPIO
>> providers...
>>
>> Yours,
>> Linus Walleij
>
> That would just add to confusion. GPIO consumers are all over the tree
> after all.
>
> Whatever, let's keep it in drivers/gpio/. Greg KH just shot down my
> idea of putting gpio-virtuser in drivers/misc/.

I could imagine treating both gpio-virtuser and this code as
a gpiolib extension rather than a consumer (which is usually
part of some other subsystem's driver).

It would also make sense to me to separate gpio providers
from gpiolib in a way, moving one or both of them into a
subdirectory of drivers/gpio/.

It's probably not worth the pain of moving files, but at
least in Kconfig and filenames, they could be named
gpiolib-virtuser.c and gpiolib-sloppy-logic-analyzer.c
to make it clear that these are not gpio provider drivers
but something else, more along the lines of gpiolib-cdev.c
and gpiolib-sysfs.c.

     Arnd