Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] gpiolib: provide gpio_device_get_desc()

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:46 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 04:29:25PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Getting the GPIO descriptor directly from the gpio_chip struct is
> > > dangerous as we don't take the reference to the underlying GPIO device.
> > > In order to start working towards removing gpiochip_get_desc(), let's
> > > provide a safer variant that works with an existing reference to struct
> > > gpio_device.

...

> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_get_desc);
> >
> > > +struct gpio_desc *
> > > +gpio_device_get_desc(struct gpio_device *gdev, unsigned int hwnum)
> >
> > I'm wondering if you move this to be upper than gpiochip_get_desc() and
> > diff will look better...
> 
> There's a limit to bikeshedding in my book and "making the diff look
> better" is definitely it. :)

Right, but if you are going to send a new version it might makes sense
to try, no?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko