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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-13 10:09:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-13 10:09:33 -0700
commit0486beaf88d2460e9dbcbba281dab683a838f0c6 (patch)
treeb52d063e60c23daa6332c4382b050b6094ac9b78 /lib
parenta996b9c61729cd1507e48303c214dc317df890e2 (diff)
parentfc709df553a34fd18010f52e6b47652268d83e7d (diff)
downloadlinux-0486beaf88d2460e9dbcbba281dab683a838f0c6.tar.bz2
Merge tag 'gpio-v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij: "This time very little driver changes but lots of core changes. We have some interesting cooperative work for ARM and Intel alike, making the GPIO subsystem more and more suitable for industrial systems and the like, in addition to the in-kernel users. We touch driver core (device properties) and lib/* by adding one simple string array free function, these are authored by Andy Shevchenko who is a well known and recognized core helpers maintainers so this should be fine. We also see some Android GKI-related modularization in the MXC drivers. Core changes: - The big core change is the updated (v2) userspace character device API. This corrects badly designed 64-bit alignment around the line events. We also add the debounce request feature. This echoes the often quotes passage from Frederick Brooks "The mythical man-month" to always throw one away, which we have seen before in things such as V4L2. So we put in a new one and deprecate and obsolete the old one. - All example tools in tools/gpio/* are migrated to the new API to set a good example. The libgpiod userspace library has been augmented to use this new API pretty much from day 1. - Some misc API hardening by using strn* function calls has been added as well. - Use the simpler IDA interface for GPIO chip instance enumeration. - Add device core function for counting string arrays in device properties. - Provide a generic library function kfree_strarray() that can be used throughout the kernel. Driver enhancements: - The DesignWare dwapb-gpio driver has been enhanced and now uses the IRQ handling in the gpiolib core. - The mockup and aggregator drivers have seen some substantial code clean-up and now use more of the core kernel inftrastructure. - Misc cleanups using dev_err_probe(). - The MXC drivers (Freescale/NXP) can now be built modularized, which makes modularized GKI Android kernels happy" * tag 'gpio-v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (73 commits) gpiolib: Update header block in gpiolib-cdev.h gpiolib: cdev: switch from kstrdup() to kstrndup() docs: gpio: add a new document to its index.rst gpio: pca953x: Add support for the NXP PCAL9554B/C tools: gpio: add debounce support to gpio-event-mon tools: gpio: add multi-line monitoring to gpio-event-mon tools: gpio: port gpio-event-mon to v2 uAPI tools: gpio: port gpio-hammer to v2 uAPI tools: gpio: rename nlines to num_lines tools: gpio: port gpio-watch to v2 uAPI tools: gpio: port lsgpio to v2 uAPI gpio: uapi: document uAPI v1 as deprecated gpiolib: cdev: support setting debounce gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_VALUES_IOCTL gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_CONFIG_IOCTL gpiolib: cdev: support edge detection for uAPI v2 gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL gpiolib: add build option for CDEV v1 ABI gpiolib: make cdev a build option ...
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 963050c0283e..7f2d5fbaf243 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -649,3 +649,26 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
return pathname;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable_file);
+
+/**
+ * kfree_strarray - free a number of dynamically allocated strings contained
+ * in an array and the array itself
+ *
+ * @array: Dynamically allocated array of strings to free.
+ * @n: Number of strings (starting from the beginning of the array) to free.
+ *
+ * Passing a non-NULL @array and @n == 0 as well as NULL @array are valid
+ * use-cases. If @array is NULL, the function does nothing.
+ */
+void kfree_strarray(char **array, size_t n)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (!array)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ kfree(array[i]);
+ kfree(array);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfree_strarray);