Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:48:10 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 7/7] ACPI: property: Allow counting a single value as an array of 1 element |
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:48:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, February 10, 2021 2:31:48 PM CET Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 10, 2021 1:36:00 PM CET Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Andy Shevchenko > > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
Rafael, thanks for the review, my answers below.
> > > > We allow to read the single value as a first element in the array. > > > > Unfortunately the counting doesn't work in this case and we can't > > > > call fwnode_property_count_*() API without getting an error. > > > > > > It would be good to mention what the symptom of the issue is here.
fwnode_property_match_string() is not working as reported by Calvin.
> > > > Modify acpi_data_prop_read() to always try the single value read > > > > and thus allow counting the single value as an array of 1 element. > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com> > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> > > > > > > This is a bug fix, so it should go in before the cleanups in this series IMO.
Seems it was never worked, hence neither Fixes tag nor...
> > > Also it looks like stable@vger material.
...Cc to stable@.
> > > > - if (val && nval == 1) { > > > > + /* Try to read as a single value first */ > > > > + if (!val || nval == 1) { > > > > ret = acpi_data_prop_read_single(data, propname, proptype, val); > > > > > > This returns -EINVAL if val is NULL.
Nope. That's why it's a patch 7. Patch 6 solves this.
> > > > if (ret >= 0) > > > > - return ret; > > > > + return val ? ret : 1; > > > > > > So val cannot be NULL here.
Why not? I have changed conditional.
> > > > }
> > > To me, acpi_fwnode_property_read_string_array() needs to special-case > > > val == NULL and nval == 0.
nval can be anything in the case of val==NULL. So far neither of your proposals conform this.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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