Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] gpiolib: Change type of lflags in gpiod_hog() and gpiod_configure_flags()

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 11:37:35AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:36:24PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:57:32PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Most of the code inside GPIO library is using enum gpio_lookup_flags.
> > > Some of the function still operate with unsigned long.
> > > 
> > > In order to be more consistent and better type checking, convert
> > > gpiod_hog() and gpiod_configure_flags() to use enum gpio_lookup_flags
> > > instead of unsigned long.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 4 ++--
> > >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 4 ++--
> > >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > index a3fe41a2c6c0..ea0d38164b06 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > @@ -4078,7 +4078,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiod_get_optional);
> > >   * occurred while trying to acquire the GPIO.
> > >   */
> > >  int gpiod_configure_flags(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *con_id,
> > > -		unsigned long lflags, enum gpiod_flags dflags)
> > > +		enum gpio_lookup_flags lflags, enum gpiod_flags dflags)
> > 
> > I actually think unsigned long here is more correct because enum is
> > supposed to present a single enumerated value and here we pass several of
> > them as bitmask.
> 
> There are more functions that are using enum to keep bit mask, for example,
> gpiochip_request_own_desc(). Are you suggesting to change them all to unsigned
> long?

No just wanted to mention it. For example enum gpiod_flags used by
gpiochip_request_own_desc() encodes bitmask as part of the enumeration
value which is fine but enum gpio_lookup_flags on the other hand does
not. So for the latter I would prefer to use unsigned int/long instead.

Up to you really. I'm fine either way :)