Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIOLINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 11:31:58AM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:05:10PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 3:12 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > > >
> > > > > +               dev_dbg(&gdev->dev, "registered chardev handle for line %d\n",
> > > > > +                       offset);
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps tracepoint / event?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Again, a cut-and-paste from V1, and I have no experience with
> > > tracepoints or events, so I have no opinion on that.
> > >
> > > So, yeah - perhaps?
> > >
> > 
> > I think it's a good idea to add some proper instrumentation this time
> > other than much less reliable logs. Can you take a look at
> > include/trace/events/gpio.h? Adding new GPIO trace events should be
> > pretty straightforward by copy-pasti... drawing inspiration from
> > existing ones.
> > 
> 
> You only want tracepoints to replace those dev_dbg()s, so when a line
> is requested? What about the release?  Any other points?
> 

Had a closer look and it seems to me that the correct place to add such
tracepoints would be gpiod_request() and gpiod_free(), so they catch all
requests, not just the cdev ones.  And that moves it outside the scope
of this patch.

I personally don't have any use for the dev_dbg()s here and am happy to
remove them - they were only there to match the behaviour of
linehandle_create as closely as possible.

Cheers,
Kent.