Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2016-06-01
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[PATCH] HC-SR04 ultrasonic ranger IIO driver

From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-01 01:02:45

On Tue, 31 May 2016 23:05:57 +0200, johannes at johannesthoma.com said:

Looks good overall, far from the ugliest driver I've seen.  I spotted one
locking bug, and a few small typos etc, noted inline...
From: Johannes Thoma <redacted>

The HC-SR04 is an ultrasonic distance sensor attached to two GPIO
pins. The driver based on Industrial I/O (iio) subsystem and is
        The driver is based on the Industrial...

+ * To configure a device do a
+ *
+ *    mkdir /config/iio/triggers/hc-sr04/sensor0
+ *
+ * (you need to mount configfs to /config first)
Most distros seem to be using /sys/kernel/config as the mount point for this...

+ * Then you can measure distance with:
+ *
+ *    cat /sys/devices/trigger0/measure
What are the units of the returned value? Inches? Hundredths of an inch?
inches.hundredths?   Other?

(Yes, I looked at the datasheet.. and your driver source is more helpful
than the sheed :)

+	struct gpio_desc *echo_desc;
+		/* Used to measure length of ECHO signal */
I was going to say "comments on same line", but that would result in *long*
lines, this is better....

+static int do_measurement(struct hc_sr04 *device,
+			  long long *usecs_elapsed)
+{
(...)
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&device->measurement_mutex))
+		return -EBUSY;
OK... this is a potential problem, because...
+	irq = gpiod_to_irq(device->echo_desc);
+	if (irq < 0)
+		return -EIO;
Here you do a 'return' without unlocking.  This should probably be:

         if (irq < 0) {
		ret = -EIO;
		goto out_mutex;
	}

I admit not knowing the GPIO or IIO stuff well enough to comment on those
details, but I didn't see anything obviously insane either....
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