[PATCH v5 4/5] docs: counter: Document character device interface
David Lechner
david at lechnology.com
Mon Oct 12 13:04:10 EDT 2020
On 10/8/20 7:28 AM, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:09:09AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> + int main(void)
>>> + {
>>> + struct pollfd pfd = { .events = POLLIN };
>>> + struct counter_event event_data[2];
>>> +
>>> + pfd.fd = open("/dev/counter0", O_RDWR);
>>> +
>>> + ioctl(pfd.fd, COUNTER_SET_WATCH_IOCTL, watches);
>>> + ioctl(pfd.fd, COUNTER_SET_WATCH_IOCTL, watches + 1);
>>> + ioctl(pfd.fd, COUNTER_LOAD_WATCHES_IOCTL);
>>> +
>>> + for (;;) {
>>> + poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
>>
>> Why do poll, when you are doing blocking read?
>>
>>> + read(pfd.fd, event_data, sizeof(event_data));
>>
>> Does your new chrdev always guarantee returning complete buffer?
>>
>> If so, should it behave like that?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Pavel
>> --
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>
> I suppose you're right: a poll() should be redundant now with this
> version of the character device implementation because buffers will
> always return complete; so a blocking read() should achieve the same
> behavior that a poll() with read() would.
>
> I'll give some more time for additional feedback to come in for this
> version of the patchset, and then likely remove support for poll() in
> the v6 submission.
>
> William Breathitt Gray
>
I hope that you mean that you will just remove it from the example
and not from the chardev. Otherwise it won't be possible to
integrate this with an event loop.
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