misc serdev: new serdev based driver for Wi2Wi w2sg00x4 GPS module

Introduce vendor prefix for Wi2Wi, Inc. for W2SG00x4 GPS modules and W2CBW003 Bluetooth/WiFi combo (CSR/Marvell).

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

Acked-by Rob Herring <[email protected]>

---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Add driver for Wi2Wi W2SG0004/84 GPS module connected to some SoC UART.

It uses serdev API hooks to monitor and forward the UART traffic to /dev/ttyGPSn and turn on/off the module. It also detects if the module is turned on (sends data) but should be off, e.g. if it was already turned on during boot or power-on-reset.

Additionally, rfkill block/unblock can be used to control an external LNA (and power down the module if not needed).

The driver concept is based on code developed by Neil Brown <[email protected]> but simplified and adapted to use the new serdev API introduced in v4.11.

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/misc/Kconfig    |  10 +
 drivers/misc/Makefile   |   1 +
 drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c | 553 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 564 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c

drivers/misc/Kconfig +0 -0

index f1a5c2357b14..a3b11016ed2b 100644

drivers/misc/Kconfig +4 -0

+	  to some SoC UART to allow powering up/down if the /dev/ttyGPSn
+	  is opened/closed.
+	  It also provides a rfkill gps name to control the LNA power.
+
 endmenu

drivers/misc/Makefile +1 -0

index 5ca5f64df478..d9d824b3d20a 100644
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SRAM_EXEC)		+= sram-exec.o
 obj-y				+= mic/
 obj-$(CONFIG_GENWQE)		+= genwqe/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ECHO)		+= echo/
+obj-$(CONFIG_W2SG0004)		+= w2sg0004.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VEXPRESS_SYSCFG)	+= vexpress-syscfg.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CXL_BASE)		+= cxl/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ASPEED_LPC_CTRL)	+= aspeed-lpc-ctrl.o

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +0 -0

new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6bfd12eb8e02

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +44 -0

+ * However when it is on it will send characters on a UART line
+ * regularly.
+ *
+ * To detect that the power state is out of sync (e.g. if GPS
+ * was enabled before a reboot), we register for UART data received
+ * notifications.
+ *
+ * In addition we register as a rfkill client so that we can
+ * control the LNA power.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
+#include <linux/of_irq.h>
+#include <linux/of_gpio.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
+#include <linux/rfkill.h>
+#include <linux/serdev.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/tty.h>
+#include <linux/tty_flip.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+/*
+ * There seems to be restrictions on how quickly we can toggle the
+ * on/off line.  data sheets says "two rtc ticks", whatever that means.
+ * If we do it too soon it doesn't work.
+ * So we have a state machine which uses the common work queue to ensure
+ * clean transitions.
+ * When a change is requested we record that request and only act on it
+ * once the previous change has completed.
+ * A change involves a 10ms low pulse, and a 990ms raised level, so only
+ * one change per second.
+ */
+
+enum w2sg_state {
+	W2SG_IDLE,	/* is not changing state */

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +5 -0

+
+	if (off != data->lna_is_off) {
+		data->lna_is_off = off;
+		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data->lna_regulator)) {
+			if (off)

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +115 -0

+
+	if (!data->suspended)
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);
+}
+
+/* called each time data is received by the UART (i.e. sent by the w2sg0004) */
+static int w2sg_uart_receive_buf(struct serdev_device *serdev,
+				const unsigned char *rxdata,
+				size_t count)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data =
+		(struct w2sg_data *) serdev_device_get_drvdata(serdev);
+
+	if (!data->requested && !data->is_on) {
+		/*
+		 * we have received characters while the w2sg
+		 * should have been be turned off
+		 */
+		data->discard_count += count;
+		if ((data->state == W2SG_IDLE) &&
+		    time_after(jiffies,
+		    data->last_toggle + data->backoff)) {
+			/* Should be off by now, time to toggle again */
+			pr_debug("w2sg00x4 has sent %d characters data although it should be off!\n",
+				data->discard_count);
+
+			data->discard_count = 0;
+
+			data->is_on = true;
+			data->backoff *= 2;
+			if (!data->suspended)
+				schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);
+		}
+	} else if (data->open_count > 0) {
+		int n;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg00x4: push %lu chars to tty port\n",
+			(unsigned long) count);
+
+		/* pass to user-space */
+		n = tty_insert_flip_string(&data->port, rxdata, count);
+		if (n != count)
+			pr_err("w2sg00x4: did loose %lu characters\n",
+				(unsigned long) (count - n));
+		tty_flip_buffer_push(&data->port);
+		return n;
+	}
+
+	/* assume we have processed everything */
+	return count;
+}
+
+/* try to toggle the power state by sending a pulse to the on-off GPIO */
+static void toggle_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = container_of(work, struct w2sg_data,
+					      work.work);
+
+	switch (data->state) {
+	case W2SG_IDLE:
+		if (data->requested == data->is_on)
+			return;
+
+		w2sg_set_lna_power(data);	/* update LNA power state */
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 0);
+		data->state = W2SG_PULSE;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: power gpio ON\n");
+
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work,
+				      msecs_to_jiffies(10));
+		break;
+
+	case W2SG_PULSE:
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->last_toggle = jiffies;
+		data->state = W2SG_NOPULSE;
+		data->is_on = !data->is_on;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: power gpio OFF\n");
+
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work,
+				      msecs_to_jiffies(10));
+		break;
+
+	case W2SG_NOPULSE:
+		data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: idle\n");
+
+		break;
+
+	}
+}
+
+static int w2sg_rfkill_set_block(void *pdata, bool blocked)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = pdata;
+
+	pr_debug("%s: blocked: %d\n", __func__, blocked);
+
+	data->lna_blocked = blocked;
+
+	return w2sg_set_lna_power(data);
+}
+
+static struct rfkill_ops w2sg0004_rfkill_ops = {
+	.set_block = w2sg_rfkill_set_block,
+};
+
+static struct serdev_device_ops serdev_ops = {
+	.receive_buf = w2sg_uart_receive_buf,
+};
+
+/*

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +15 -0

+	return w2sg_by_minor;
+}
+
+static int w2sg_tty_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data;
+	int retval;
+
+	pr_debug("%s() tty = %p\n", __func__, tty);
+
+	data = w2sg_get_by_minor(tty->index);
+
+	if (!data)
+		return -ENODEV;
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +54 -0

+}
+
+static void w2sg_tty_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = tty->driver_data;
+
+	pr_debug("%s()\n", __func__);
+
+	w2sg_set_power(data, --data->open_count > 0);
+
+	tty_port_close(&data->port, tty, file);
+}
+
+static int w2sg_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty,
+		const unsigned char *buffer, int count)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = tty->driver_data;
+
+	/* simply pass down to UART */
+	return serdev_device_write_buf(data->uart, buffer, count);
+}
+
+static const struct tty_operations w2sg_serial_ops = {
+	.install = w2sg_tty_install,
+	.open = w2sg_tty_open,
+	.close = w2sg_tty_close,
+	.write = w2sg_tty_write,
+};
+
+static const struct tty_port_operations w2sg_port_ops = {
+	/* none defined, but we need the struct */
+};
+
+static int w2sg_probe(struct serdev_device *serdev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data;
+	struct rfkill *rf_kill;
+	int err;
+	int minor;
+	enum of_gpio_flags flags;
+
+	pr_debug("%s()\n", __func__);
+
+	/*
+	 * For future consideration:
+	 * for multiple such GPS receivers in one system
+	 * we need a mechanism to define distinct minor values
+	 * and search for an unused one.
+	 */
+	minor = 0;
+	if (w2sg_get_by_minor(minor)) {
+		pr_err("w2sg minor is already in use!\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +22 -0

+	/* defer until we have all gpios */
+	if (data->on_off_gpio == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+	data->lna_regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(&serdev->dev,
+							"lna");
+	if (IS_ERR(data->lna_regulator)) {
+		/* defer until we can get the regulator */
+		if (PTR_ERR(data->lna_regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+		data->lna_regulator = NULL;
+	}
+	pr_debug("%s() lna_regulator = %p\n", __func__, data->lna_regulator);
+
+	data->lna_blocked = true;
+	data->lna_is_off = true;
+
+	data->is_on = false;
+	data->requested = false;
+	data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+	data->last_toggle = jiffies;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +4 -0

+	data->tty_drv->major = 0;
+	data->tty_drv->minor_start = 0;
+	data->tty_drv->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL;
+	data->tty_drv->subtype = SERIAL_TYPE_NORMAL;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +9 -0

+	tty_set_operations(data->tty_drv, &w2sg_serial_ops);
+
+	/* register the tty driver */
+	err = tty_register_driver(data->tty_drv);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_err("%s - tty_register_driver failed(%d)\n",
+			__func__, err);
+		put_tty_driver(data->tty_drv);
+		goto err_rfkill;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +11 -0

+
+	/* keep off until user space requests the device */
+	w2sg_set_power(data, false);
+
+	return 0;
+
+err_rfkill:
+	rfkill_destroy(rf_kill);
+	serdev_device_close(data->uart);
+out:
+	return err;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +75 -0

+	serdev_device_close(data->uart);
+
+	/* we should lookup in w2sg_by_minor */
+	minor = 0;
+	tty_unregister_device(data->tty_drv, minor);
+
+	tty_unregister_driver(data->tty_drv);
+}
+
+static int __maybe_unused w2sg_suspend(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+	data->suspended = true;
+
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&data->work);
+
+	w2sg_set_lna_power(data);	/* shuts down if needed */
+
+	if (data->state == W2SG_PULSE) {
+		msleep(10);
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->last_toggle = jiffies;
+		data->is_on = !data->is_on;
+		data->state = W2SG_NOPULSE;
+	}
+
+	if (data->state == W2SG_NOPULSE) {
+		msleep(10);
+		data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+	}
+
+	if (data->is_on) {
+		pr_info("GPS off for suspend %d %d %d\n", data->requested,
+			data->is_on, data->lna_is_off);
+
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 0);
+		msleep(10);
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->is_on = 0;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int __maybe_unused w2sg_resume(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+	data->suspended = false;
+
+	pr_info("GPS resuming %d %d %d\n", data->requested,
+		data->is_on, data->lna_is_off);
+
+	schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);	/* enables LNA if needed */
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct of_device_id w2sg0004_of_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "wi2wi,w2sg0004" },
+	{ .compatible = "wi2wi,w2sg0084" },
+	{},
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, w2sg0004_of_match);
+
+SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(w2sg_pm_ops, w2sg_suspend, w2sg_resume);
+
+static struct serdev_device_driver w2sg_driver = {
+	.probe		= w2sg_probe,
+	.remove		= w2sg_remove,
+	.driver = {
+		.name	= "w2sg0004",
+		.owner	= THIS_MODULE,
+		.pm	= &w2sg_pm_ops,

Am 22.12.2017 um 13:44 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

Quoted 6 lines · H. Nikolaus Schaller

Add driver for Wi2Wi W2SG0004/84 GPS module connected to some SoC UART.

It uses serdev API hooks to monitor and forward the UART traffic to /dev/ttyGPSn and turn on/off the module. It also detects if the module is turned on (sends data) but should be off, e.g. if it was already turned on during boot or power-on-reset.

Quoted 5 lines

Additionally, rfkill block/unblock can be used to control an external LNA (and power down the module if not needed).

The driver concept is based on code developed by Neil Brown <[email protected]> but simplified and adapted to use the new serdev API introduced in v4.11.

I'm sorry (and I know this discussion has been going on for a long time),

but this still feels like too much of a hack.

You're registering a tty driver to allow user space to continue treat this as a tty device, but you provide no means of actually modifying anything (line settings, etc).

It's essentially just a character device
with common tty ioctls as noops from a device PoV (well, plus the ldisc buffering and processing).

This will probably require someone to first implement a generic gps framework with a properly defined interface which you may then teach gpsd to use (e.g. to avoid all its autodetection functionality) instead.

Or some entirely different approach, for example, where you manage everything from user space.

I'd suggest reiterating the problem you're trying to solve and enumerating the previously discussed potential solutions in order to find a proper abstraction level for this (before getting lost in implementation details).

That being said, I'm still pointing some bugs and issue below that you can consider for future versions of this (and other drivers) below.

Quoted 9 lines

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

---

drivers/misc/Kconfig    |  10 +
drivers/misc/Makefile   |   1 +
drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c | 553 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 564 insertions(+)

create mode 100644 drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c

drivers/misc/Kconfig source "drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig" · line 513

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drivers/misc/Kconfig +0 -0

index f1a5c2357b14..a3b11016ed2b 100644
@@ -508,4 +508,14 @@ source "drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig"

source "drivers/misc/genwqe/Kconfig"
source "drivers/misc/echo/Kconfig"
source "drivers/misc/cxl/Kconfig"

drivers/misc/Kconfig +3 -0

+
+config W2SG0004
+	tristate "W2SG00x4 on/off control"

Please provide a better summary for what this driver does.

drivers/misc/Kconfig source "drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig" · line 516

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drivers/misc/Kconfig +3 -0

+	depends on GPIOLIB && SERIAL_DEV_BUS
+	help
+          Enable on/off control of W2SG00x4 GPS moduled connected

Some whitespace issue here.

Quoted 28 lines

drivers/misc/Kconfig +4 -0

+	  to some SoC UART to allow powering up/down if the /dev/ttyGPSn
+	  is opened/closed.
+	  It also provides a rfkill gps name to control the LNA power.
+

endmenu

drivers/misc/Makefile +0 -0

index 5ca5f64df478..d9d824b3d20a 100644
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SRAM_EXEC)		+= sram-exec.o

obj-y += mic/
obj-$(CONFIG_GENWQE) += genwqe/
obj-$(CONFIG_ECHO) += echo/
+obj-$(CONFIG_W2SG0004) += w2sg0004.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VEXPRESS_SYSCFG) += vexpress-syscfg.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CXL_BASE) += cxl/
obj-$(CONFIG_ASPEED_LPC_CTRL) += aspeed-lpc-ctrl.o

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +4 -0

new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6bfd12eb8e02
@@ -0,0 +1,553 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Driver for power controlling the w2sg0004/w2sg0084 GPS receiver.
+ *

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 10

Quoted 6 lines

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Neil Brown <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright (C) 2015-2017 H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>,
+ *						Golden Delicious Computers
+ *
+ * This receiver has an ON/OFF pin which must be toggled to
+ * turn the device 'on' of 'off'.  A high->low->high toggle

s/of/or/

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 14

Quoted 5 lines

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +4 -0

+ * will switch the device on if it is off, and off if it is on.
+ *
+ * To enable receiving on/off requests we register with the
+ * UART power management notifications.

No, the UART (serial device) would be the grandparent of your serdev device (for which you register PM callbacks).

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 16

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +2 -0

+ *
+ * It is not possible to directly detect the state of the device.

Didn't the 0084 version have a pin for this?

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +48 -0

+ * However when it is on it will send characters on a UART line
+ * regularly.
+ *
+ * To detect that the power state is out of sync (e.g. if GPS
+ * was enabled before a reboot), we register for UART data received
+ * notifications.
+ *
+ * In addition we register as a rfkill client so that we can
+ * control the LNA power.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
+#include <linux/of_irq.h>
+#include <linux/of_gpio.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
+#include <linux/rfkill.h>
+#include <linux/serdev.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/tty.h>
+#include <linux/tty_flip.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+/*
+ * There seems to be restrictions on how quickly we can toggle the
+ * on/off line.  data sheets says "two rtc ticks", whatever that means.
+ * If we do it too soon it doesn't work.
+ * So we have a state machine which uses the common work queue to ensure
+ * clean transitions.
+ * When a change is requested we record that request and only act on it
+ * once the previous change has completed.
+ * A change involves a 10ms low pulse, and a 990ms raised level, so only
+ * one change per second.
+ */
+
+enum w2sg_state {
+	W2SG_IDLE,	/* is not changing state */
+	W2SG_PULSE,	/* activate on/off impulse */
+	W2SG_NOPULSE	/* deactivate on/off impulse */
+};
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 70

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+struct w2sg_data {
+	struct		rfkill *rf_kill;
+	struct		regulator *lna_regulator;
+	int		lna_blocked;	/* rfkill block gps active */
+	int		lna_is_off;	/* LNA is currently off */
+	int		is_on;		/* current state (0/1) */

These look like flags; use a bitfield rather than an int.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 75

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +5 -0

+	unsigned long	last_toggle;
+	unsigned long	backoff;	/* time to wait since last_toggle */
+	int		on_off_gpio;	/* the on-off gpio number */
+	struct		serdev_device *uart;	/* uart connected to the chip */
+	struct		tty_driver *tty_drv;	/* this is the user space tty */

This does not belong in the device data as someone (Arnd?) already pointed out to you in a comment to an earlier version. More below.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 84

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +9 -0

+	struct		device *dev;	/* from tty_port_register_device() */
+	struct		tty_port port;
+	int		open_count;	/* how often we were opened */
+	enum		w2sg_state state;
+	int		requested;	/* requested state (0/1) */
+	int		suspended;
+	struct delayed_work work;
+	int		discard_count;
+};

You seem to have completely ignored locking. These flags and resources are accessed from multiple contexts, and it all looks very susceptible to races (e.g. the work queue can race with the rfkill callback and leave the regulator enabled when it should be off).

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 94

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +9 -0

+/* should become w2sg_by_minor[n] if we want to support multiple devices */
+static struct w2sg_data *w2sg_by_minor;
+
+static int w2sg_set_lna_power(struct w2sg_data *data)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+	int off = data->suspended || !data->requested || data->lna_blocked;
+
+	pr_debug("%s: %s\n", __func__, off ? "off" : "on");

This and other pr_xxx should be replaced with dev_dbg and friends.

Quoted 10 lines

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +9 -0

+
+	if (off != data->lna_is_off) {
+		data->lna_is_off = off;
+		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data->lna_regulator)) {
+			if (off)
+				regulator_disable(data->lna_regulator);
+			else
+				ret = regulator_enable(data->lna_regulator);
+		}

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 109

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static void w2sg_set_power(void *pdata, int val)

Don't pass around void pointers like this.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +3 -0

+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = (struct w2sg_data *) pdata;
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 122

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +10 -0

+	pr_debug("%s to state=%d (requested=%d)\n", __func__, val,
+		 data->requested);
+
+	if (val && !data->requested) {
+		data->requested = true;
+	} else if (!val && data->requested) {
+		data->backoff = HZ;
+		data->requested = false;
+	} else
+		return;

Missing brackets.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +119 -0

+
+	if (!data->suspended)
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);
+}
+
+/* called each time data is received by the UART (i.e. sent by the w2sg0004) */
+static int w2sg_uart_receive_buf(struct serdev_device *serdev,
+				const unsigned char *rxdata,
+				size_t count)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data =
+		(struct w2sg_data *) serdev_device_get_drvdata(serdev);
+
+	if (!data->requested && !data->is_on) {
+		/*
+		 * we have received characters while the w2sg
+		 * should have been be turned off
+		 */
+		data->discard_count += count;
+		if ((data->state == W2SG_IDLE) &&
+		    time_after(jiffies,
+		    data->last_toggle + data->backoff)) {
+			/* Should be off by now, time to toggle again */
+			pr_debug("w2sg00x4 has sent %d characters data although it should be off!\n",
+				data->discard_count);
+
+			data->discard_count = 0;
+
+			data->is_on = true;
+			data->backoff *= 2;
+			if (!data->suspended)
+				schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);
+		}
+	} else if (data->open_count > 0) {
+		int n;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg00x4: push %lu chars to tty port\n",
+			(unsigned long) count);
+
+		/* pass to user-space */
+		n = tty_insert_flip_string(&data->port, rxdata, count);
+		if (n != count)
+			pr_err("w2sg00x4: did loose %lu characters\n",
+				(unsigned long) (count - n));
+		tty_flip_buffer_push(&data->port);
+		return n;
+	}
+
+	/* assume we have processed everything */
+	return count;
+}
+
+/* try to toggle the power state by sending a pulse to the on-off GPIO */
+static void toggle_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = container_of(work, struct w2sg_data,
+					      work.work);
+
+	switch (data->state) {
+	case W2SG_IDLE:
+		if (data->requested == data->is_on)
+			return;
+
+		w2sg_set_lna_power(data);	/* update LNA power state */
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 0);
+		data->state = W2SG_PULSE;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: power gpio ON\n");
+
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work,
+				      msecs_to_jiffies(10));
+		break;
+
+	case W2SG_PULSE:
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->last_toggle = jiffies;
+		data->state = W2SG_NOPULSE;
+		data->is_on = !data->is_on;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: power gpio OFF\n");
+
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->work,
+				      msecs_to_jiffies(10));
+		break;
+
+	case W2SG_NOPULSE:
+		data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+
+		pr_debug("w2sg: idle\n");
+
+		break;
+
+	}
+}
+
+static int w2sg_rfkill_set_block(void *pdata, bool blocked)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = pdata;
+
+	pr_debug("%s: blocked: %d\n", __func__, blocked);
+
+	data->lna_blocked = blocked;
+
+	return w2sg_set_lna_power(data);
+}
+
+static struct rfkill_ops w2sg0004_rfkill_ops = {
+	.set_block = w2sg_rfkill_set_block,
+};
+
+static struct serdev_device_ops serdev_ops = {
+	.receive_buf = w2sg_uart_receive_buf,
+};
+
+/*
+ * we are a man-in the middle between the user-space visible tty port
+ * and the serdev tty where the chip is connected.
+ * This allows us to recognise when the device should be powered on
+ * or off and handle the "false" state that data arrives while no

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 247

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+ * users-space tty client exists.
+ */
+
+static struct w2sg_data *w2sg_get_by_minor(unsigned int minor)
+{
+	BUG_ON(minor >= 1);

Never use BUG_ON in driver code.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +19 -0

+	return w2sg_by_minor;
+}
+
+static int w2sg_tty_install(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data;
+	int retval;
+
+	pr_debug("%s() tty = %p\n", __func__, tty);
+
+	data = w2sg_get_by_minor(tty->index);
+
+	if (!data)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	retval = tty_standard_install(driver, tty);
+	if (retval)
+		goto error_init_termios;
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 272

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+	tty->driver_data = data;
+
+	return 0;
+
+error_init_termios:
+	tty_port_put(&data->port);

Where's the corresponding get?

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +3 -0

+	return retval;
+}
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 285

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +10 -0

+static int w2sg_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = tty->driver_data;
+
+	pr_debug("%s() data = %p open_count = ++%d\n", __func__,
+		 data, data->open_count);
+
+	w2sg_set_power(data, ++data->open_count > 0);
+
+	return tty_port_open(&data->port, tty, file);

You'd leave the open count incremented on errors here.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +58 -0

+}
+
+static void w2sg_tty_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = tty->driver_data;
+
+	pr_debug("%s()\n", __func__);
+
+	w2sg_set_power(data, --data->open_count > 0);
+
+	tty_port_close(&data->port, tty, file);
+}
+
+static int w2sg_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty,
+		const unsigned char *buffer, int count)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = tty->driver_data;
+
+	/* simply pass down to UART */
+	return serdev_device_write_buf(data->uart, buffer, count);
+}
+
+static const struct tty_operations w2sg_serial_ops = {
+	.install = w2sg_tty_install,
+	.open = w2sg_tty_open,
+	.close = w2sg_tty_close,
+	.write = w2sg_tty_write,
+};
+
+static const struct tty_port_operations w2sg_port_ops = {
+	/* none defined, but we need the struct */
+};
+
+static int w2sg_probe(struct serdev_device *serdev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data;
+	struct rfkill *rf_kill;
+	int err;
+	int minor;
+	enum of_gpio_flags flags;
+
+	pr_debug("%s()\n", __func__);
+
+	/*
+	 * For future consideration:
+	 * for multiple such GPS receivers in one system
+	 * we need a mechanism to define distinct minor values
+	 * and search for an unused one.
+	 */
+	minor = 0;
+	if (w2sg_get_by_minor(minor)) {
+		pr_err("w2sg minor is already in use!\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
+	data = devm_kzalloc(&serdev->dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (data == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 349

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+
+	serdev_device_set_drvdata(serdev, data);
+
+	data->on_off_gpio = of_get_named_gpio_flags(serdev->dev.of_node,
+						     "enable-gpios", 0,
+						     &flags);

You should be using gpio descriptors and not the legacy interface.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +22 -0

+	/* defer until we have all gpios */
+	if (data->on_off_gpio == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+	data->lna_regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(&serdev->dev,
+							"lna");
+	if (IS_ERR(data->lna_regulator)) {
+		/* defer until we can get the regulator */
+		if (PTR_ERR(data->lna_regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
+		data->lna_regulator = NULL;
+	}
+	pr_debug("%s() lna_regulator = %p\n", __func__, data->lna_regulator);
+
+	data->lna_blocked = true;
+	data->lna_is_off = true;
+
+	data->is_on = false;
+	data->requested = false;
+	data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+	data->last_toggle = jiffies;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 381

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +10 -0

+	data->backoff = HZ;
+
+	data->uart = serdev;
+
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&data->work, toggle_work);
+
+	err = devm_gpio_request(&serdev->dev, data->on_off_gpio,
+				"w2sg0004-on-off");
+	if (err < 0)
+		goto out;

Just return unless you're actually undwinding something.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 386

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +5 -0

+
+	gpio_direction_output(data->on_off_gpio, false);
+
+	serdev_device_set_client_ops(data->uart, &serdev_ops);
+	serdev_device_open(data->uart);

Missing error handling.

And always keeping the port open would in most cases prevent the serial controller from runtime suspending.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 389

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +3 -0

+
+	serdev_device_set_baudrate(data->uart, 9600);
+	serdev_device_set_flow_control(data->uart, false);

So you hardcode these settings and provide no means for user space to change them. This may make sense for this GPS, but it looks like at least some of the wi2wi 0084 modules use 4800 baud ("i"-versions?).

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 395

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+
+	rf_kill = rfkill_alloc("GPS", &serdev->dev, RFKILL_TYPE_GPS,
+				&w2sg0004_rfkill_ops, data);
+	if (rf_kill == NULL) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_rfkill;

Name error labels after what they do (not where you jump from).

That may have prevented the NULL deref you'd trigger in the error path here.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 407

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +12 -0

+	}
+
+	err = rfkill_register(rf_kill);
+	if (err) {
+		dev_err(&serdev->dev, "Cannot register rfkill device\n");
+		goto err_rfkill;
+	}
+
+	data->rf_kill = rf_kill;
+
+	/* allocate the tty driver */
+	data->tty_drv = alloc_tty_driver(1);

As was already pointed out by Arnd in a review of an previous version of this series, this must not be done at probe (do it at module init). We don't want separate tty drivers for every device.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 409

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +2 -0

+	if (!data->tty_drv)
+		return -ENOMEM;

Here you'd leak the registered rfkill structure, and leave the port open.

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 414

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +5 -0

+
+	/* initialize the tty driver */
+	data->tty_drv->owner = THIS_MODULE;
+	data->tty_drv->driver_name = "w2sg0004";
+	data->tty_drv->name = "ttyGPS";

I don't think you should be claiming this generic namespace for something as specific as this.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +4 -0

+	data->tty_drv->major = 0;
+	data->tty_drv->minor_start = 0;
+	data->tty_drv->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL;
+	data->tty_drv->subtype = SERIAL_TYPE_NORMAL;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 428

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +10 -0

+	data->tty_drv->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV;
+	data->tty_drv->init_termios = tty_std_termios;
+	data->tty_drv->init_termios.c_cflag = B9600 | CS8 | CREAD |
+					      HUPCL | CLOCAL;
+	/*
+	 * optional:
+	 * tty_termios_encode_baud_rate(&data->tty_drv->init_termios,
+					115200, 115200);
+	 * w2sg_tty_termios(&data->tty_drv->init_termios);
+	 */

Why is this here?

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +13 -0

+	tty_set_operations(data->tty_drv, &w2sg_serial_ops);
+
+	/* register the tty driver */
+	err = tty_register_driver(data->tty_drv);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_err("%s - tty_register_driver failed(%d)\n",
+			__func__, err);
+		put_tty_driver(data->tty_drv);
+		goto err_rfkill;
+	}
+
+	/* minor (0) is now in use */
+	w2sg_by_minor = data;

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 447

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+
+	tty_port_init(&data->port);
+	data->port.ops = &w2sg_port_ops;
+
+	data->dev = tty_port_register_device(&data->port,
+			data->tty_drv, minor, &serdev->dev);

Missing error handling.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +15 -0

+
+	/* keep off until user space requests the device */
+	w2sg_set_power(data, false);
+
+	return 0;
+
+err_rfkill:
+	rfkill_destroy(rf_kill);
+	serdev_device_close(data->uart);
+out:
+	return err;
+}
+
+static void w2sg_remove(struct serdev_device *serdev)
+{

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 468

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+	struct w2sg_data *data = serdev_device_get_drvdata(serdev);
+	int minor;
+
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&data->work);
+
+	/* what is the right sequence to avoid problems? */

Clearly that's something you need to determine.

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +79 -0

+	serdev_device_close(data->uart);
+
+	/* we should lookup in w2sg_by_minor */
+	minor = 0;
+	tty_unregister_device(data->tty_drv, minor);
+
+	tty_unregister_driver(data->tty_drv);
+}
+
+static int __maybe_unused w2sg_suspend(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+	data->suspended = true;
+
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&data->work);
+
+	w2sg_set_lna_power(data);	/* shuts down if needed */
+
+	if (data->state == W2SG_PULSE) {
+		msleep(10);
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->last_toggle = jiffies;
+		data->is_on = !data->is_on;
+		data->state = W2SG_NOPULSE;
+	}
+
+	if (data->state == W2SG_NOPULSE) {
+		msleep(10);
+		data->state = W2SG_IDLE;
+	}
+
+	if (data->is_on) {
+		pr_info("GPS off for suspend %d %d %d\n", data->requested,
+			data->is_on, data->lna_is_off);
+
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 0);
+		msleep(10);
+		gpio_set_value_cansleep(data->on_off_gpio, 1);
+		data->is_on = 0;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int __maybe_unused w2sg_resume(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct w2sg_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+	data->suspended = false;
+
+	pr_info("GPS resuming %d %d %d\n", data->requested,
+		data->is_on, data->lna_is_off);
+
+	schedule_delayed_work(&data->work, 0);	/* enables LNA if needed */
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct of_device_id w2sg0004_of_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "wi2wi,w2sg0004" },
+	{ .compatible = "wi2wi,w2sg0084" },
+	{},
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, w2sg0004_of_match);
+
+SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(w2sg_pm_ops, w2sg_suspend, w2sg_resume);
+
+static struct serdev_device_driver w2sg_driver = {
+	.probe		= w2sg_probe,
+	.remove		= w2sg_remove,
+	.driver = {
+		.name	= "w2sg0004",
+		.owner	= THIS_MODULE,
+		.pm	= &w2sg_pm_ops,
+		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(w2sg0004_of_match)
+	},
+};
+

drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c line 553

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drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c new file +6 -0

+module_serdev_device_driver(w2sg_driver);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("NeilBrown <[email protected]>");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("w2sg0004 GPS power management driver");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

Johan

Am 22.12.2017 um 15:40 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>:

Hi Johan,

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Am 22.12.2017 um 13:44 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

Quoted 11 lines · H. Nikolaus Schaller

Add driver for Wi2Wi W2SG0004/84 GPS module connected to some SoC UART.

It uses serdev API hooks to monitor and forward the UART traffic to /dev/ttyGPSn and turn on/off the module. It also detects if the module is turned on (sends data) but should be off, e.g. if it was already turned on during boot or power-on-reset.

Additionally, rfkill block/unblock can be used to control an external LNA (and power down the module if not needed).

The driver concept is based on code developed by Neil Brown <[email protected]> but simplified and adapted to use the new serdev API introduced in v4.11.

I'm sorry (and I know this discussion has been going on for a long time),but this still feels like too much of a hack.

Hi Johan,

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Am 22.12.2017 um 15:40 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>:

Hi Johan,

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Am 22.12.2017 um 13:44 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

Quoted 9 lines · H. Nikolaus Schaller

Add driver for Wi2Wi W2SG0004/84 GPS module connected to some SoC UART.

It uses serdev API hooks to monitor and forward the UART traffic to /dev/ttyGPSn and turn on/off the module. It also detects if the module is turned on (sends data) but should be off, e.g. if it was already turned on during boot or power-on-reset.

Additionally, rfkill block/unblock can be used to control an external LNA (and power down the module if not needed).

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The driver concept is based on code developed by Neil Brown <[email protected]> but simplified and adapted to use the new serdev API introduced in v4.11.

I'm sorry (and I know this discussion has been going on for a long time),but this still feels like too much of a hack.

Happy new year ... Happy new attempt...

Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

I see three reasonable options how this presentation can be done:

1. char device
2. tty device
3. some new gps interface API (similar to network, bluetooth interfaces)
4. no driver and use the UART tty directly

Pros and cons:

4. no driver and use UART directly
+ a non-solution seems to be attractive
- must turn on/off chip by gpio hacks from user-space

- can not guarantee (!) to power off the chip if the last user-space process using it is killed (which is essential for power-management of a handheld, battery operated device)

I would clearly prefer 3 over 2 over 1 over 4.

So do you see a chance that the kernel core team provides something useable (not perfect) for variant 3 in reasonable time (let's say 3-6 months)?

If not, I want to suggest to accept the second-best choice 2. for now and we will update the driver as soon as 3. appears. IMHO it would be a good test case for a new subsystem.

Am 12.01.2018 um 16:39 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Also it seems at least part of your specific problem is that you have failed to wire up the WAKEUP pin of the W2SG0004/84 properly,

which then
forces you to look at the data stream to determine the power state of the chip. Judging from a quick look at the GTA04 schematics it seems you've even connected the WAKEUP output to the 1V8_OUT output?!

The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that,

even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

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I see three reasonable options how this presentation can be done:

1. char device
2. tty device
3. some new gps interface API (similar to network, bluetooth interfaces)
4. no driver and use the UART tty directly

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Pros and cons:

4. no driver and use UART directly
+ a non-solution seems to be attractive
- must turn on/off chip by gpio hacks from user-space

I'm not sure that would amount to more of hack then doing it in the kernel would.

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- can not guarantee (!) to power off the chip if the last user-space process using it is killed (which is essential for power-management of a handheld, battery operated device)

That depends on how you implement things (extending gpsd, wrapper script, pty daemon, ...).

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I would clearly prefer 3 over 2 over 1 over 4.

So do you see a chance that the kernel core team provides something useable (not perfect) for variant 3 in reasonable time (let's say 3-6 months)?

No, I'm afraid not. At least not if we're talking about a framework that would replace gpsd.

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If not, I want to suggest to accept the second-best choice 2. for now and we will update the driver as soon as 3. appears. IMHO it would be a good test case for a new subsystem.

Getting the interface right from the start is quite important, as otherwise we may end up having to support a superseded one for a long time.

Hi Johan,

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Am 12.01.2018 um 16:39 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Yes, that can be questioned of course. It was questioned and discussed several times and I thought the answer was a clear yes. But let's reiterate.

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Also it seems at least part of your specific problem is that you have failed to wire up the WAKEUP pin of the W2SG0004/84 properly,

The w2sg0004 has no wakeup pin. At least I can't find one in the data sheet.

The two pins you refer to from the 0084 data sheet are called BootSelect0/1 in the 0004 and have a different function.

To be clear, we did not fail to wire it up. We did the design before the 0084 was announced and available. We just had to swap in the 0084 into existing PCBs during production because the 0004 became EOL. Otherwise we would probably still use the 0004 without WAKEUP output.

To make it worse, we have no documentation for an individual board if an 0004 or 0084 chip is installed and there is no means how a software can find out which one it is talking to (especially before properly powering on). Therefore we can not even provide two different device trees or drivers or whatever, unless we ask people to open their device and look on the chip. Quite crazy wrt. user-friendlyness of software installation in 2018...

Therefore, a driver must be capable to handle both chips in the same way, with minimalistic assumptions, even if the 0084 could provide a direct signal to make it easier than using serdev to monitor the data stream.

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forces you to look at the data stream to determine the power state of the chip. Judging from a quick look at the GTA04 schematics it seems you've even connected the WAKEUP output to the 1V8_OUT output?!

No. You failed to see that this is an optional 0R, which is not installed. The 0R on pin 7 (BootSelect1) to GND was removed when we did switch from 0004 to 0084. Pin 6 (BootSelect0/WAKEUP) was never connected.

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The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that,

even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

Please tell me why there are so many hacks for hardware issues in certain drivers. Any why those are good and this one (if it is one at all) is not.

What I can learn from your discussion is that it might be considerable to add an optional gpio for the 0084 WAKEUP and add some logic to support users who have or will have that pin connected.

But even then we would need a driver to handle this gpio and issue an on/off impulse on the other to switch states. It would be a different driver (variant - maybe some CONFIG option or handled by code), but not "no driver".

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I see three reasonable options how this presentation can be done:

1. char device
2. tty device
3. some new gps interface API (similar to network, bluetooth interfaces)
4. no driver and use the UART tty directly

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Pros and cons:

4. no driver and use UART directly
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- must turn on/off chip by gpio hacks from user-space

I'm not sure that would amount to more of hack then doing it in the kernel would.

It might not be big effort in the user-space code/scripts.

But much effort to convince all the plethora of user-space client maintainers to integrate something. And have them roll out. And have distributions take it. And have users upgrade to it. 5 years later...

Do you think it is easier to convince them than you? They usually assume a power management issue should be solved by the kernel driver.

That is what Andreas did remark as motivation: provide a solution for *existing* user spaces.

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- can not guarantee (!) to power off the chip if the last user-space process using it is killed (which is essential for power-management of a handheld, battery operated device)

That depends on how you implement things (extending gpsd, wrapper script, pty daemon, ...).

No. You can of course cover all standard cases but there is one fundamental issue which is IMHO a problem of any user-space implementation:

How can you guarantee that the chip is powered off if no user-space process is using it or if the last process doing this is killed by *whatever* reason?

E.g. after a kill -9. Or if someone deinstalls gpsd or whatever and assumes (and wants a guarantee) that GPS is now turned off and never turned on drawing precious milliamps from the battery for no use.

As it is well known, a user-space process can't protect itself against kill -9. Or has this recently been changed and I am not aware of?

This is the fundamental reason why we need a kernel driver to provide reliable, repeatable and trustable power management of this chip.

It is equally fundamental as a hard disk should spin down after the last file is closed. Even if this process ends by a kill -9.

A second almost equally fundamental aspect to be considered is how you want to automatically and reliably turn off the chip by pure user-space code when entering suspend.

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If not, I want to suggest to accept the second-best choice 2. for now and we will update the driver as soon as 3. appears. IMHO it would be a good test case for a new subsystem.

Getting the interface right from the start is quite important, as otherwise we may end up having to support a superseded one for a long time.

This seems to contradict your argument that user-space can very easily adapt to everything. If the latter were true there would be no need to keep old interfaces supported for a long time.

So can you agree to that a battery powered portable device must have reliable and trustable power management? And if it provable can't be implemented in user-space (a single counter example suffices) it must be a kernel driver?

Am 18.01.2018 um 07:13 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

Hacks are never good, but sometimes needed. But we should try to keep them contained in drivers rather than allow them to spread to core code, was what I was trying to say above.

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That is what Andreas did remark as motivation: provide a solution for *existing* user spaces.

I understand that this is what you want, but that in itself is not a sufficient reason to put something in the kernel.

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That depends on how you implement things (extending gpsd, wrapper script, pty daemon, ...).

No. You can of course cover all standard cases but there is one fundamental issue which is IMHO a problem of any user-space implementation:

How can you guarantee that the chip is powered off if no user-space process is using it or if the last process doing this is killed by *whatever* reason?

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E.g. after a kill -9. Or if someone deinstalls gpsd or whatever and assumes (and wants a guarantee) that GPS is now turned off and never turned on drawing precious milliamps from the battery for no use.

Have something run at init to put the device in a low power state.

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As it is well known, a user-space process can't protect itself against kill -9. Or has this recently been changed and I am not aware of?

This is the fundamental reason why we need a kernel driver to provide reliable, repeatable and trustable power management of this chip.

It is equally fundamental as a hard disk should spin down after the last file is closed. Even if this process ends by a kill -9.

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This seems to contradict your argument that user-space can very easily adapt to everything. If the latter were true there would be no need to keep old interfaces supported for a long time.

You probably know that we try hard never to change an interface that would break user space, and that's why we need to get it right.

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So can you agree to that a battery powered portable device must have reliable and trustable power management? And if it provable can't be implemented in user-space (a single counter example suffices) it must be a kernel driver?

Having a kernel driver would make things easier for user space, sure, but again, that's not a sufficient reason to merge just any kernel implementation.

Am 18.01.2018 um 14:43 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>:

Hi Johan,

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Hacks are never good, but sometimes needed. But we should try to keep them contained in drivers rather than allow them to spread to core code, was what I was trying to say above.

Well, aren't we talking here about a well isolated driver? And not about core code?

Core code already provides everything to build a driver for this chip to make us happy with.

It is just not yet providing a generic gps interface API to make everybody happy with.

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That is what Andreas did remark as motivation: provide a solution for *existing* user spaces.

I understand that this is what you want, but that in itself is not a sufficient reason to put something in the kernel.

Agreed, but it is a secondary (but still strong) motivation, not the primary one.

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- can not guarantee (!) to power off the chip if the last user-space process using it is killed (which is essential for power-management of a handheld, battery operated device)

That depends on how you implement things (extending gpsd, wrapper script, pty daemon, ...).

No. You can of course cover all standard cases but there is one fundamental issue which is IMHO a problem of any user-space implementation:

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How can you guarantee that the chip is powered off if no user-space process is using it or if the last process doing this is killed by *whatever* reason?

E.g. after a kill -9. Or if someone deinstalls gpsd or whatever and assumes (and wants a guarantee) that GPS is now turned off and never turned on drawing precious milliamps from the battery for no use.

Have something run at init to put the device in a low power state.

This does *not* solve the issue how to *guarantee* that it becomes powered off if the number of user-space processes goes down to zero *after* init.

Please consider that a portable device is rarely booted but might be operated over several days with many suspend cycles. And people may still expect that the power consumer "GPS" is turned off if their personal user-space setup simply kills gpsd.

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As it is well known, a user-space process can't protect itself against kill -9. Or has this recently been changed and I am not aware of?

This is the fundamental reason why we need a kernel driver to provide reliable, repeatable and trustable power management of this chip.

It is equally fundamental as a hard disk should spin down after the last file is closed. Even if this process ends by a kill -9.

Please advise how we should solve this fundamental problem in user-space.

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This seems to contradict your argument that user-space can very easily adapt to everything. If the latter were true there would be no need to keep old interfaces supported for a long time.

You probably know that we try hard never to change an interface that would break user space, and that's why we need to get it right.

Yes, I know and agree that it is very important (and difficult to achieve).

But it seems that there are different opinions of what "right" is...

You seem to focus on the "right" API only (where we agree that the "right" API does not exist and likely will never come or at least in the near future).

But for us the whole combination of kernel + user-space must behave "right" (and use a function split that allows to optimally achieve this goal).

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So can you agree to that a battery powered portable device must have reliable and trustable power management? And if it provable can't be implemented in user-space (a single counter example suffices) it must be a kernel driver?

Having a kernel driver would make things easier for user space, sure, but again, that's not a sufficient reason to merge just any kernel implementation.

It is not about "easier" for anyone. Neither for you nor for me. For us it would be much easier not to have to run this never-ending discussion over and over...

It is about making it technically fully "reliable". And not 99% as per quick and dirty user-space hacks.

It is so easy to invent scenarios in user-space to make the device practically unusable by unnoticed draining a full battery within less than a day when not perfectly turning off the chip power.

So if a kernel driver can better protect users against this situation for a portable device with this chip, why shouldn't it do with a handful LOC? What requirement is more important than this?

BR and thanks,
Nikolaus

If I look for example at the camera module drivers provided by drivers/media/i2c, most of them could be easily power-controlled from user-space by i2c-tools and 1-2 gpios through /sys/class/gpio and a big set of scripts.

Still they have a place in the kernel and cameras are powered on if the device is opened and powered down if it is closed.

So I am still trying to understand the rationale and logic (if one exists) behind having them in kernel but rejecting our driver which does the same for a different class of devices.

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Given that we'd still depend on gpsd and other, proprietary, daemons to actually parse and use (also for control) the plethora of GPS protocols available, it may even be best to just keep it all in user space.

Now, if we'd ever have a proper GPS framework that handled everything in kernel space (i.e. no more gpsd) then we would be able to write kernel drivers that also take care of PM. But perhaps that's unlikely to ever be realised given the state of things (proprietary protocols, numerous quirky implementations, etc).

The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that, even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Yes, it does.

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Now, if we'd ever have a proper GPS framework that handled everything in kernel space (i.e. no more gpsd) then we would be able to write kernel drivers that also take care of PM. But perhaps that's unlikely to ever be realised given the state of things (proprietary protocols, numerous quirky implementations, etc).

That is what needs to happen.

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The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that, even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

Oh, kernel is indeed right place to provide hardware abstraction -- and that includes bug workarounds.

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Yes, it does.

But not necessarily in its current form.

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Now, if we'd ever have a proper GPS framework that handled everything in kernel space (i.e. no more gpsd) then we would be able to write kernel drivers that also take care of PM. But perhaps that's unlikely to ever be realised given the state of things (proprietary protocols, numerous quirky implementations, etc).

That is what needs to happen.

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The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that, even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

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Oh, kernel is indeed right place to provide hardware abstraction -- and that includes bug workarounds.

Right, at least when such hacks can be confined to a driver and not be spread all over the place.

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

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Yes, it does.

Thanks, Pavel for supporting our view.

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But not necessarily in its current form.

Is this a "yes after some code fixes"?

Pavel mentioned an example where such an evolutionary approach was taken.

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Now, if we'd ever have a proper GPS framework that handled everything in kernel space (i.e. no more gpsd) then we would be able to write kernel drivers that also take care of PM. But perhaps that's unlikely to ever be realised given the state of things (proprietary protocols, numerous quirky implementations, etc).

That is what needs to happen.

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The kernel is probably not the place to be working around issues like that, even if serdev at least allows for such hacks to be fairly isolated in drivers (unlike some of the earlier proposals touching core code).

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Oh, kernel is indeed right place to provide hardware abstraction -- and that includes bug workarounds.

Right, at least when such hacks can be confined to a driver and not be spread all over the place.

It seems that you forgot that the driver we propose is not spread all over the place. It *is* confined to a single driver thanks to the serdev api.

Am 19.03.2018 um 14:54 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

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Hi Johan,

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Yes, it does.

Thanks, Pavel for supporting our view.

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But not necessarily in its current form.

Is this a "yes after some code fixes"?

No, we need some kind of at least rudimentary gps framework even if we allow for a raw (NMEA) interface for the time being (possibly indefinitely).

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No, we need some kind of at least rudimentary gps framework even if we allow for a raw (NMEA) interface for the time being (possibly indefinitely).

Ok, that would be fine if we can get that!

For a minimal set of API I think something like this (following hci_dev) would suffice:

struct gps_dev {
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	int (*open)(struct gps_dev *gdev);
	int (*close)(struct gps_dev *gdev);
	int (*send)(struct gps_dev *gdev, char *data, int length);
};

int gps_register_dev(struct gps_dev *gdev);
void gps_unregister_dev(struct gps_dev *gdev);
int gps_recv_nmea_chars(struct gps_dev *gdev, char *data, int length);

If that would wrap all creation of some /dev/ttyGPS0 (or however it is called), it would fit our needs for a driver and user-space for our system.

And I would be happy to get rid of creating and registering a /dev/ttyGPS0 in the w2sg0004 driver.

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Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

Or even more fundamentally, does this belong in the kernel at all?

Yes, it does.

But not necessarily in its current form.

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I'm sorry (and I know this discussion has been going on for a long time),but this still feels like too much of a hack.

Happy new year ... Happy new attempt...

Let's restart this discussion and focus on the main roadblock (others are minor details which can be sorted out later).

If it feels like a hack, the key issue seems to me to be the choice of the API to present the GPS data to user space. Right?

I see three reasonable options how this presentation can be done:

1. char device
2. tty device
3. some new gps interface API (similar to network, bluetooth interfaces)
4. no driver and use the UART tty directly

3. some new gps interface API
+ could become very elegant and general
- does not exist (AFAIK not even a plan but I am not aware of everything)
- no user-space daemons and applications exist which use it

I'd suggest reiterating the problem you're trying to solve and enumerating the previously discussed potential solutions in order to find a proper abstraction level for this (before getting lost in implementation details).

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I'd suggest reiterating the problem you're trying to solve and enumerating the previously discussed potential solutions in order to find a proper abstraction level for this (before getting lost in implementation details).

The main point here is in short words: Having a device powered on or off when the uart it is attached to, is used or not used anymore, so the already available userspace applications do not need to be changed.

I digged out a bit around:
alternative aproaches were:
adding hooks to the uart/tty layer:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143333222014616&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=devicetree&m=143130955414580&w=2

I do not find it right now in my archive:
adding a virtual gpio for dtr to the omap_serial driver.
The driver behind the virtual io would then handle pm. One reason it was rejected was that the devicetree should only contain real hardware and not virtual stuff.

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I'd suggest reiterating the problem you're trying to solve and enumerating the previously discussed potential solutions in order to find a proper abstraction level for this (before getting lost in implementation details).

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The main point here is in short words: Having a device powered on or off when the uart it is attached to, is used or not used anymore, so the already available userspace applications do not need to be changed.

So we'd end up with something in-between a kernel driver and a user-space solution. What about devices that need to be (partially) powered also when the port isn't open? A pure user-space solution would be able to handle all variants.

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The main point here is in short words: Having a device powered on or off when the uart it is attached to, is used or not used anymore, so the already available userspace applications do not need to be changed.

So we'd end up with something in-between a kernel driver and a user-space solution. What about devices that need to be (partially) powered also when the port isn't open? A pure user-space solution would be able to handle all variants.

Well partly powered devices are at many places, And they hide that problem from userspace, just get the open()/get() and close()/put() from there and power the device accordingly.

So the question still remains why should the kernel hide some things and some it should not.
If it all is in userspace, then there is still something needed in the devicetree (if I understand correctly, every information about hardware which cannot be auto-probed belongs into device tree) so that the userspace knows what kind of device is at that port. So there can be a daemon powering on and off devices. But that would break existing applications which just expect that they just need to open/close the device.

Or you need to have some inotify handler in userspace and attach it there to react on close() and open() of that device.
But this thing needs to have two kind of information:

1. the type of chip available to do the right powerup sequence.

2. how the chip is wired up to the cpu.

So to avoid having hardware information spread all over the table at least these information would need to be in devicetree. But that also all feels like a hack and hard to maintain.

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So to avoid having hardware information spread all over the table at least these information would need to be in devicetree. But that also all feels like a hack and hard to maintain.

Having the device described in the device tree is certainly desirable, not least for chip identification. And with a GPS framework in the kernel with a well-defined interface, implementing power management would be straight forward.

I'm just not convinced that the proposed tty interface is the right interface for this. User space would still rely on gpsd for the GPS protocols, and would also ultimately be managing power by killing gpsd or whatever daemon that would otherwise be holding the port open.

Something like the generic power sequences that has been discussed elsewhere might be a better fit for this if all you want to do is power on and off on port open and close (and on suspend/resume). There really isn't anything GPS-specific in the current proposal (besides the suggested tty-device name).

But sure, that wouldn't be sufficient to deal with the unknown-power-state problem with the device in question.

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So to avoid having hardware information spread all over the table at least these information would need to be in devicetree. But that also all feels like a hack and hard to maintain.

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Having the device described in the device tree is certainly desirable, not least for chip identification. And with a GPS framework in the kernel with a well-defined interface, implementing power management would be straight forward.

Hmm, devicetree without in-kernel drivers, do we have anything like that somewhere? I thought that was a big no-go. But maybe I am wrong.

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I'm just not convinced that the proposed tty interface is the right interface for this. User space would still rely on gpsd for the GPS protocols, and would also ultimately be managing power by killing gpsd or whatever daemon that would otherwise be holding the port open.

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Something like the generic power sequences that has been discussed elsewhere might be a better fit for this if all you want to do is power on and off on port open and close (and on suspend/resume). There really isn't anything GPS-specific in the current proposal (besides the suggested tty-device name).

So a bit like that mmc-powerseq stuff we already have?

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But sure, that wouldn't be sufficient to deal with the unknown-power-state problem with the device in question.

Maybe there could be a kind of active flag set by the tty if there is traffic, so that active flag could be used in these power sequence stuff? But then again the tty layer has to be extended which would probably also cause a lot of ruffled feathers.

GTA04 has a W2SG0004/84 connected to UART2 of the OMAP3 processor. A GPIO can pulse the on/off toggle switch.

The VSIM regulator is used to power on/off the LNA of an external active GPS antenna so that a driver can turn the LNA off if GPS is not needed to save battery energy.

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

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 arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-gta04.dtsi | 7 +++++++
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arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-gta04.dtsi +7 -0

index 4504908c23fe..1ad744a25c36 100644
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 &uart2 {
 	pinctrl-names = "default";
 	pinctrl-0 = <&uart2_pins>;
+
+	gps: gps {
+		compatible = "wi2wi,w2sg0004";
+		lna-supply = <&vsim>;   /* LNA regulator */
+		/* GPIO_145: trigger for on/off-impulse for w2sg0004 */
+		enable-gpios = <&gpio5 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+	};
 };
 
 &uart3 {

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This allows to set CONFIG_W2SG0004_DEBUG which will make the driver report more activities and it will turn on the GPS module during boot while the driver assumes that it is off. This can be used to debug the correct functioning of the hardware. Therefore we add it as an option to the driver because we think it is of general use (and a little tricky to add by system testers).

Normally it should be off.

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

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 drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Am 22.12.2017 um 13:51 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

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This allows to set CONFIG_W2SG0004_DEBUG which will make the driver report more activities and it will turn on the GPS module during boot while the driver assumes that it is off. This can be used to debug the correct functioning of the hardware. Therefore we add it as an option to the driver because we think it is of general use (and a little tricky to add by system testers).

Normally it should be off.

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I'd say say this does not belong in the kernel at all.

And even if the
power-state test were to be allowed, most of the pr_debugs would need to go.

You really should be using dev_dbg and friends, which can already be enabled selectively at run time using dynamic debugging.

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Am 22.12.2017 um 13:51 schrieb Johan Hovold <[email protected]>:

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This allows to set CONFIG_W2SG0004_DEBUG which will make the driver report more activities and it will turn on the GPS module during boot while the driver assumes that it is off. This can be used to debug the correct functioning of the hardware. Therefore we add it as an option to the driver because we think it is of general use (and a little tricky to add by system testers).

Normally it should be off.

Signed-off-by H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>

---
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

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I'd say say this does not belong in the kernel at all.

There are other examples of such DEBUG options for drivers. E.g. CONFIG_LIBERTAS_DEBUG.

It helps the hardware developer to test things and should of course be disabled in a production kernel.

Am 01.12.2017 um 08:49 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>:

Changes V5:
* clarified to keep it in drivers/misc and not create a new group drivers/gps
* fix formatting of new entry in omap3-gta04.dtsi (suggested by Tony Lindgren)
* removed MODULE_ALIAS (suggested by Andrew F. Davis)
* some more formatting, code&style fixes (suggested by Andrew F. Davis)
* apply __maybe_unused for PM (suggested by Andrew F. Davis)
* fixed copyright and author records (suggested by Andrew F. Davis)

2017-11-15 22:38:01: Changes V4:

* removed all pdata remains (suggested by Arnd Bergmann and Rob Herring)
* fixed minor issues and subject/commit messages (suggested by Rob Herring)
* added one missing Signed-off-By: (suggested by Andreas F?rber)
* added SPDX header (suggested by Rob Herring)

2017-11-15 16:19:17: Changes V3:

* worked in suggestions by kbuild test robot
* added misc+serdev to the subject

2017-11-12 22:00:02: Changes V2:

* reduced to submit only w2sg00x4 GPS driver code
* add DT node for GTA04 device to make use of the driver
* split into base code and a debugging Kconfig option (brings device into false power state after boot)
* worked in comments by kbuild robot and Rob Herring

2017-05-21 12:44:07: RFC V1

* RFC concerning new serdev based drivers for Wi2Wi w2sg00x4 GPS module and w2cbw003 bluetooth

Years long history of getting this devices supported (original work by Neil Brown).

H. Nikolaus Schaller (5):
dt-bindings: define vendor prefix for Wi2Wi, Inc.
dt-bindings: gps: add w2sg00x4 bindings documentation (GPS module with
UART))
misc serdev: Add w2sg0004 (gps receiver) power control driver
DTS: gta04: add uart2 child node for w2sg00x4
misc serdev: w2sg0004: add debugging code and Kconfig

.../devicetree/bindings/gps/wi2wi,w2sg0004.txt     |  24 +
.../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |   1 +
arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-gta04.dtsi                 |   7 +
drivers/misc/Kconfig                               |  18 +
drivers/misc/Makefile                              |   1 +
drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c                            | 590 +++++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 641 insertions(+)

create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gps/wi2wi,w2sg0004.txt create mode 100644 drivers/misc/w2sg0004.c

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2.12.2

Hi,
unfortunately I had lost to include Andrew Davis' address who had provided very valuable comments for v5. Sorry, Andrew!

There has only been one more comment by Andreas F?rber in the past 14 days.

So how to proceed? Who is taking care of deciding/merging towards linux-next?

Am 18.12.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>:

Quoted 4 lines · H. Nikolaus Schaller

Hi,
unfortunately I had lost to include Andrew Davis' address who had provided very valuable comments for v5. Sorry, Andrew!

Quoted 3 lines

There has only been one more comment by Andreas F?rber in the past 14 days.

So how to proceed? Who is taking care of deciding/merging towards linux-next?

I already have the serdev patches in my tty tree, right?

If I have no
objections, I can take the rest through that tree as well...

thanks,

greg k-h