Re: [PATCH 00/13] gpiolib: add gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep

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Hi David,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series was inspired by some minor annoyance I have experienced a
> few times in recent reviews.
>
> Calling gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep() can be quite verbose due to
> having so many parameters. In most cases, we already have a struct
> gpio_descs that contains the first 3 parameters so we end up with 3 (or
> often even 6) pointer indirections at each call site. Also, people have
> a tendency to want to hard-code the first argument instead of using
> struct gpio_descs.ndescs, often without checking that ndescs >= the
> hard-coded value.
>
> So I'm proposing that we add a gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep()
> function that is a wrapper around gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep()
> that has struct gpio_descs as the first parameter to make it a bit
> easier to read the code and avoid the hard-coding temptation.
>
> I've just done gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep() for now since there
> were over 10 callers of this one. There aren't as many callers of
> the get and atomic variants, but we can add those too if this seems
> like a useful thing to do.

I like it.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

for the series.

Yours,
Linus Walleij





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