History log of /drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_watchdog.h
Revision Date Author Comments
2f69915c728c3be41e12dbbbdd4eeb8d3388d58c 16-Apr-2013 H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> staging: comedi: introduce, and use, comedi_spriv_free()

The comedi_subdevice 'private' variable is a void * that is available
for the subdevice to use in manner. It's common in comedi drivers for
the driver to allocate memory for a subdevice and store the pointer
to that memory in the 'private' variable. It's then the responsibility
of the driver to free that memory when the device is detached.

Due to how the attach/detach works in comedi, the drivers need to do
some sanity checking before they can free the allocated memory during
the detach.

Introduce a helper function, comedi_spriv_free(), to handle freeing
the private data allocated for a subdevice. This allows moving all the
sanity checks into the helper function and makes it safe to call
with any context. It also allows removing some of the boilerplate
code in the (*detach) functions.

Remove the subdev_8255_cleanup() export in the 8255 subdevice driver
as well as the addi_watchdog_cleanup() export in the addi_watchdog
driver and use the new helper instead.

The amplc_dio200_common driver uses a number of local helper functions
to free the private data for it's subdevices. Remove those as well and
use the new helper.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2abcf87aeea500d28a953d4b02450f76820f899d 18-Jan-2013 H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> staging: comedi: introduce addi_watchdog driver

Many of the ADDI-DATA drivers have a "watchdog" subdevice that can
be used to monitor digital output activity. All the digital outputs
are released (set to 0) if the digital outputs are not accessed, or
the watchdog it not pinged, before the timeout of the watchdog
occurs. The only difference in the drivers for the watchdog subdevice
is the base address used to talk to the watchdog registers.

Instead of duplicating the code needed to support this watchdog,
introduce a helper module, similar to the 8255 module. This module
will be select'ed by the drivers that can use it.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>