Re: [PATCH/RFC v4 0/3] gp2ap020a00f ambient light/proximity sensor

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On 08/18/2013 01:19 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On 08/16/13 14:11, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
This driver supports:
  - reading channels in 'one shot' mode through read_raw callback,
  - four events - rising and falling ambient light events and
    rising and falling proximity roc events.
  - triggers for all the three channels (triggers can't be enabled
    simultaneosly with proximity detection event)

This is a follow-up of the previous patch and it includes
following improvements (Jonathan - thanks for the review)
   - switched over to using devm_iio_device_alloc
   - switched over to using devm_request_threaded_irq
   - switched over to using newly implemented managed allocator
     for iio_trigger
   - simplified error handling path in the probe function
   - switched over to using standard endian conversion
     functions
   - removed redundant debugfs interface
   - removed local reg_mask variables from gp2ap020a00f_set_operation_mode

Jonathan, I'd like to also make sure that you've seen my emails
in the threads related to the first and the second version of this RFC.
I asked there some vital questions related to this driver but they are
left unanswered. I will repeat them here:
oops. I'm awful at responding to tricky questions / or reading cover
letters.  Sorry about that.

   - I am getting warning while calling iio_trigger_poll, and I am not
     sure if it is acceptable:

     WARNING: at kernel/irq/handle.c:146handle_irq_event_percpu+0x2a4/0x2b4()
     irq 8 handler iio_pollfunc_store_time+0x0/0x38 enabled interrupts
Drat, I'd missed this entirely. The issue here is that your trigger has
to sleep (and hence occurs in a bottom half) in order to work out what it is
receiving (event or dataready).  Triggers are actually interrupt chips thus
the top half is expected to be called in interrupt context but you've already
left it in this case.  Hence there are two options... Either don't allow for a
top half and call iio_trigger_poll_chained instead (which will only call the
bottom halfs) or do it in a similar fashion to that done in the sysfs trigger.
(drivers/iio/triggers/iio-trig-sysfs) This uses an irq_work structure
to jump back into interrupt context and call the iio_trigger_poll successfully.

I've applied the second option. The first one also works but there
is a problem with timestamp - its value for each capture is the same.
It gets changed only after the driver module is reloaded. It seems
to contain garbage as it can assume also extremely high negative
values.

We probably need to check for other drivers suffering this issue.  Mostly
hardware uses separate physical pins for events vs data ready so this isn't
that common. I know some ST devices do this.  This always made the lis3l02dq
driver a pain to deal with (though now the that the irq_work stuff exists
that should be easy to tidy up).


   - I am still encountering "module in use" message when I am trying
     to execute rmmod on a driver module after generic_buffer application
     has been launched at least once. This is not specific only to my
     implementation but also for lps331ap driver (the only one of the
     remaining IIO drivers supporting triggers I am able to test
     currently).
Umm.. I'm unsure, but it 'might' be something to do with the interrupt issues
that are firing the above warning (though I doubt it as the lps331ap isn't
suffering from that bug - as it currently stands in tree).
Check that all the sysfs entries are as one would expect (no trigger attached
or buffered enabled etc).  Might be a bug in generic_buffer but I haven't
personally seen it do this.

Fixing the warning didn't fix this problem. I've checked sysfs entries
- the buffer is not enabled, no trigger is attached. I don't know if
this is correct, but when I build build my driver as a module I get
also the module industrialio-triggered-buffer.ko built, which has to
be loaded prior to the driver module.

   - The scale value for the illuminance_clear channel changes dynamically,
     depending on the lux mode set. I think that currently IIO isn't
     prepared for such a situation?

Indeed not.  The overhead to indicate this in buffered mode will completely
defeat the object of having that so lightweight.  My suggestion would be
to apply the scale to the data before pushing it to the driver.

Do you mean before pushing it to the buffer, in the trigger handler?
If so, then how to inform the user what scale has been applied to
the values in the buffer? And how to provide in-driver-scaled
output value to sysfs? Currently there are only *_raw and _*scale
attributes available. Maybe it would be convenient to come up with
a new attrribute, dedicated to the in-driver-scaled values?

Thanks,
Jacek
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