Re: [PATCH v10 03/11] mux: minimal mux subsystem and gpio-based mux controller

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On 2017-03-10 12:09, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Add a new minimalistic subsystem that handles multiplexer controllers.
> When multiplexers are used in various places in the kernel, and the
> same multiplexer controller can be used for several independent things,
> there should be one place to implement support for said multiplexer
> controller.
> 
> A single multiplexer controller can also be used to control several
> parallel multiplexers, that are in turn used by different subsystems
> in the kernel, leading to a need to coordinate multiplexer accesses.
> The multiplexer subsystem handles this coordination.
> 
> This new mux controller subsystem initially comes with a single backend
> driver that controls gpio based multiplexers. Even though not needed by
> this initial driver, the mux controller subsystem is prepared to handle
> chips with multiple (independent) mux controllers.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>

I would like to mention a bugfix patch that I have added to the end of
the series in response to feedback from Dan Carpenter. Can be found
here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/14/700

And I have also amended the below editorials to this patch.

Cheers,
peda

diff --git a/include/linux/mux.h b/include/linux/mux.h
index 7ef0864c8f38..febdde4246df 100644
--- a/include/linux/mux.h
+++ b/include/linux/mux.h
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ struct mux_chip;
 struct mux_control;
 struct platform_device;

+/**
+ * struct mux_control_ops -    Mux controller operations for a mux chip.
+ * @set:                       Set the state of the given mux controller.
+ */
 struct mux_control_ops {
        int (*set)(struct mux_control *mux, int state);
 };
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ struct mux_control_ops {
 #define MUX_IDLE_DISCONNECT (-2)

 /**
- * struct mux_control - Represents a mux controller.
+ * struct mux_control -        Represents a mux controller.
  * @lock:              Protects the mux controller state.
  * @chip:              The mux chip that is handling this mux controller.
  * @states:            The number of mux controller states.
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ struct mux_control {
 /**
  * struct mux_chip -   Represents a chip holding mux controllers.
  * @controllers:       Number of mux controllers handled by the chip.
- * @mux:               Array of mux controllers that is handled.
+ * @mux:               Array of mux controllers that are handled.
  * @dev:               Device structure.
  * @id:                        Used to identify the device internally.
  * @ops:               Mux controller operations.
@@ -176,7 +180,7 @@ void devm_mux_chip_free(struct device *dev, struct mux_chip *mux_chip);
  * mux_control_deselect() if mux_control_select() fails.
  *
  * Return: 0 if the requested state was already active, or 1 it the
- * mux-control state was changed to the requested state. Or a negavive
+ * mux-control state was changed to the requested state. Or a negative
  * errno on error.
  *
  * Note that the difference in return value of zero or one is of
@@ -192,13 +196,13 @@ int mux_control_select(struct mux_control *mux, int state);
  *
  * Return: 0 on success and a negative errno on error. An error can only
  * occur if the mux has an idle state. Note that even if an error occurs, the
- * mux-control is unlocked for others to access.
+ * mux-control is unlocked and is thus free for the next access.
  */
 int mux_control_deselect(struct mux_control *mux);

 /**
  * mux_control_get_index() - Get the index of the given mux controller
- * @mux: The mux-control to the the index for.
+ * @mux: The mux-control to get the index for.
  *
  * Return: The index of the mux controller within the mux chip the mux
  * controller is a part of.

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