Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: don't use gpiochip_get_direction() when registering a chip

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 03:43:29PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:56:23PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> > > During chip registration we should neither check the return value of
> > > gc->get_direction() nor hold the SRCU lock when calling it. The former
> > > is because pin controllers may have pins set to alternate functions and
> > > return errors from their get_direction() callbacks. That's alright - we
> > > should default to the safe INPUT state and not bail-out. The latter is
> > > not needed because we haven't registered the chip yet so there's nothing
> > > to protect against dynamic removal. In fact: we currently hit a lockdep
> > > splat. Revert to calling the gc->get_direction() callback directly not
> > > not checking its value.

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> > I think the below code deserves a commit (as a summary of the above commit
> > message).
> 
> Can you rephrase? I'm not getting this one.

Ah, s/commit/comment/

> > > +             if (gc->get_direction && gpiochip_line_is_valid(gc, desc_index))
> > > +                     assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags,
> > > +                                !gc->get_direction(gc, desc_index));
> > > +             else
> > >                       assign_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT,
> > >                                  &desc->flags, !gc->direction_input);
> >
> > Otherwise LGTM,
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko