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

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On 2/1/25 4:36 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:24:40 +0100, David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> 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.
>>
>> ---
>> David Lechner (13):
>>       gpiolib: add gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep()
>>       auxdisplay: seg-led-gpio: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       bus: ts-nbus: validate ts,data-gpios array size
>>       bus: ts-nbus: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       gpio: max3191x: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       iio: adc: ad7606: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       iio: amplifiers: hmc425a: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       iio: resolver: ad2s1210: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       mmc: pwrseq_simple: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       mux: gpio: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       net: mdio: mux-gpio: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       phy: mapphone-mdm6600: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>       ASoC: adau1701: use gpiods_set_array_value_cansleep
>>
>>  drivers/auxdisplay/seg-led-gpio.c           |  3 +--
>>  drivers/bus/ts-nbus.c                       | 10 ++++++----
>>  drivers/gpio/gpio-max3191x.c                | 18 +++++++-----------
>>  drivers/iio/adc/ad7606.c                    |  3 +--
>>  drivers/iio/adc/ad7606_spi.c                |  3 +--
>>  drivers/iio/amplifiers/hmc425a.c            |  3 +--
>>  drivers/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c             |  8 ++------
>>  drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c            |  3 +--
>>  drivers/mux/gpio.c                          |  4 +---
>>  drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mux-gpio.c            |  3 +--
>>  drivers/phy/motorola/phy-mapphone-mdm6600.c |  4 +---
>>  include/linux/gpio/consumer.h               |  7 +++++++
>>  sound/soc/codecs/adau1701.c                 |  4 +---
>>  13 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>> ---
>> base-commit: df4b2bbff898227db0c14264ac7edd634e79f755
>> change-id: 20250131-gpio-set-array-helper-bd4a328370d3
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
> 
> This looks good to me except for one thing: the function prefix. I would
> really appreciate it if we could stay within the existing gpiod_ namespace and
> not add a new one in the form of gpiods_.
> 
> Maybe: gpiod_multiple_set_ or gpiod_collected_set...?
> 
> Bartosz

I was waiting for someone to complain about the naming. ;-)

I was going for as short as possible, but OK, the most obvious prefix to me
would be `gpio_descs_...` (to match the first parameter). Any objections to
that?





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