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Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default

From Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default
Date 2017-05-25 07:50 +0200
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24.05.2017 22:27, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017 11:08:30 +0300
> Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com> wrote:
> 
>> Having all events enabled by default is misleading.
>> Userspace should explicitly enable events they want to receive.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>
> I agree in principle, but this is a userspace ABI change.  Sadly we
> can't do it with out risking breaking userspace code...
> 
> One of those we should have caught in review, but now it's there
> we can't actually do anything about it unless we are absolutely
> sure no one will notice!

I see your point.

Still, isn't there subsystem-level default that all events are disabled
by default?  If such, then current hi8435 state breaks subsystem-level
rules, which is a [userspace-visible] bug.  I'm not sure how far should
we go in bug compatibility.

One crazy idea could be - make default selectable via device tree (with
default set to all-enabled to keep bug-compatibility).  But perhaps
that's over-reaction.

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[PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-05-23 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-05-24 21:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-05-25 07:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-05-28 17:50 +0200
        Re: Fw: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 19:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-05-29 07:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH/RFC] iio: hi8435: do not enable all events by default Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-06-03 11:10 +0200

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