Thread (53 messages) 53 messages, 11 authors, 2022-06-25

Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] intel_gna: add a 'misc' device

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-05-13 11:18:33
Also in: lkml

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:00:38PM +0200, Maciej Kwapulinski wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The new 'misc' device is the node for applications in user space to
interact with the driver.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Kwapulinski <redacted>
Tested-by: Savo Novakovic <redacted>
---
 drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.h | 11 +++----
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.c b/drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.c
index 0e31b8c6bb70..1e6345a8325b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/intel/gna/device.c
@@ -20,6 +20,18 @@ module_param(recovery_timeout, int, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(recovery_timeout, "Recovery timeout in seconds");
 #endif
 
+struct file;
+
+static int gna_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
+{
+	return -EPERM;
+}
That sucks, why have an open that does nothing but fail?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
+static const struct file_operations gna_file_ops = {
+	.owner		=	THIS_MODULE,
+	.open		=	gna_open,
+};
+
 static void gna_devm_idr_destroy(void *data)
 {
 	struct idr *idr = data;
@@ -27,6 +39,36 @@ static void gna_devm_idr_destroy(void *data)
 	idr_destroy(idr);
 }
 
+static void gna_devm_deregister_misc_dev(void *data)
Why is this a void *?

This isn't windows, use real pointer types everywhere in the kernel
please.
+{
+	struct miscdevice *misc = data;
+
+	misc_deregister(misc);
+}
+
+static int gna_devm_register_misc_dev(struct device *parent, struct miscdevice *misc)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = misc_register(misc);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(parent, "misc device %s registering failed. errcode: %d\n",
+			misc->name, ret);
+		gna_devm_deregister_misc_dev(misc);
+	} else {
+		dev_dbg(parent, "device: %s registered\n",
+			misc->name);
You have loads of debugging in this driver still, is it really needed?
+	}
+
+	ret = devm_add_action(parent, gna_devm_deregister_misc_dev, misc);
Why do you need this?


thanks,

greg k-h
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