[PATCH v16 04/14] counter: Update counter.h comments to reflect sysfs internalization

William Breathitt Gray vilhelm.gray at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 20:47:48 PDT 2021


The Counter subsystem architecture and driver implementations have
changed in order to handle Counter sysfs interactions in a more
consistent way. This patch updates the Generic Counter interface
header file comments to reflect the changes.

Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/counter/counter-core.c |  3 ++
 include/linux/counter.h        | 62 ++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/counter/counter-core.c b/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
index c533a6ff12cf..3cda2c47bacb 100644
--- a/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
+++ b/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static struct bus_type counter_bus_type = {
  * This function registers a Counter to the system. A sysfs "counter" directory
  * will be created and populated with sysfs attributes correlating with the
  * Counter Signals, Synapses, and Counts respectively.
+ *
+ * RETURNS:
+ * 0 on success, negative error number on failure.
  */
 int counter_register(struct counter_device *const counter)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/counter.h b/include/linux/counter.h
index b69277f5c4c5..445f22d8bfe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/counter.h
@@ -188,11 +188,10 @@ struct counter_comp {
 
 /**
  * struct counter_signal - Counter Signal node
- * @id:		unique ID used to identify signal
- * @name:	device-specific Signal name; ideally, this should match the name
- *		as it appears in the datasheet documentation
- * @ext:	optional array of Counter Signal extensions
- * @num_ext:	number of Counter Signal extensions specified in @ext
+ * @id:		unique ID used to identify the Signal
+ * @name:	device-specific Signal name
+ * @ext:	optional array of Signal extensions
+ * @num_ext:	number of Signal extensions specified in @ext
  */
 struct counter_signal {
 	int id;
@@ -206,7 +205,7 @@ struct counter_signal {
  * struct counter_synapse - Counter Synapse node
  * @actions_list:	array of available action modes
  * @num_actions:	number of action modes specified in @actions_list
- * @signal:		pointer to associated signal
+ * @signal:		pointer to the associated Signal
  */
 struct counter_synapse {
 	const enum counter_synapse_action *actions_list;
@@ -217,15 +216,14 @@ struct counter_synapse {
 
 /**
  * struct counter_count - Counter Count node
- * @id:			unique ID used to identify Count
- * @name:		device-specific Count name; ideally, this should match
- *			the name as it appears in the datasheet documentation
- * @functions_list:	array available function modes
+ * @id:			unique ID used to identify the Count
+ * @name:		device-specific Count name
+ * @functions_list:	array of available function modes
  * @num_functions:	number of function modes specified in @functions_list
- * @synapses:		array of synapses for initialization
- * @num_synapses:	number of synapses specified in @synapses
- * @ext:		optional array of Counter Count extensions
- * @num_ext:		number of Counter Count extensions specified in @ext
+ * @synapses:		array of Synapses for initialization
+ * @num_synapses:	number of Synapses specified in @synapses
+ * @ext:		optional array of Count extensions
+ * @num_ext:		number of Count extensions specified in @ext
  */
 struct counter_count {
 	int id;
@@ -243,27 +241,27 @@ struct counter_count {
 
 /**
  * struct counter_ops - Callbacks from driver
- * @signal_read:	optional read callback for Signal attribute. The read
- *			level of the respective Signal should be passed back via
- *			the level parameter.
- * @count_read:		optional read callback for Count attribute. The read
- *			value of the respective Count should be passed back via
- *			the val parameter.
- * @count_write:	optional write callback for Count attribute. The write
- *			value for the respective Count is passed in via the val
+ * @signal_read:	optional read callback for Signals. The read level of
+ *			the respective Signal should be passed back via the
+ *			level parameter.
+ * @count_read:		read callback for Counts. The read value of the
+ *			respective Count should be passed back via the value
+ *			parameter.
+ * @count_write:	optional write callback for Counts. The write value for
+ *			the respective Count is passed in via the value
  *			parameter.
  * @function_read:	read callback the Count function modes. The read
  *			function mode of the respective Count should be passed
  *			back via the function parameter.
- * @function_write:	write callback for Count function modes. The function
- *			mode to write for the respective Count is passed in via
- *			the function parameter.
- * @action_read:	read callback the Synapse action modes. The read action
- *			mode of the respective Synapse should be passed back via
- *			the action parameter.
- * @action_write:	write callback for Synapse action modes. The action mode
- *			to write for the respective Synapse is passed in via the
- *			action parameter.
+ * @function_write:	optional write callback for Count function modes. The
+ *			function mode to write for the respective Count is
+ *			passed in via the function parameter.
+ * @action_read:	optional read callback the Synapse action modes. The
+ *			read action mode of the respective Synapse should be
+ *			passed back via the action parameter.
+ * @action_write:	optional write callback for Synapse action modes. The
+ *			action mode to write for the respective Synapse is
+ *			passed in via the action parameter.
  */
 struct counter_ops {
 	int (*signal_read)(struct counter_device *counter,
@@ -291,7 +289,7 @@ struct counter_ops {
 
 /**
  * struct counter_device - Counter data structure
- * @name:		name of the device as it appears in the datasheet
+ * @name:		name of the device
  * @parent:		optional parent device providing the counters
  * @ops:		callbacks from driver
  * @signals:		array of Signals
-- 
2.32.0




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