Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS core support.

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

> +static long pps_cdev_ioctl(struct file *file,
> +		unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +{
> +	struct pps_device *pps = file->private_data;
> +	struct pps_kparams params;
> +	struct pps_fdata fdata;
> +	unsigned long ticks;
> +	void __user *uarg = (void __user *) arg;
> +	int __user *iuarg = (int __user *) arg;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	switch (cmd) {
> +	case PPS_CHECK:
> +
> +		/* This does nothing but signal we are a PPS source... */
> +
> +		return 0;

I think this one is superflous.  Just doing a PPS_GETPARAMS: should get
your the same information..

> +	case PPS_GETPARAMS:
> +		pr_debug("PPS_GETPARAMS: source %d\n", pps->id);
> +
> +		/* Return current parameters */
> +		err = copy_to_user(uarg, &pps->params,
> +						sizeof(struct pps_kparams));
> +		if (err)
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +
> +		break;
> +
> +	case PPS_SETPARAMS:
> +		pr_debug("PPS_SETPARAMS: source %d\n", pps->id);
> +
> +		/* Check the capabilities */
> +		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TIME))
> +			return -EPERM;
> +
> +		err = copy_from_user(&params, uarg, sizeof(struct pps_kparams));
> +		if (err)
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +		if (!(params.mode & (PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_CAPTURECLEAR))) {
> +			pr_debug("capture mode unspecified (%x)\n",
> +								params.mode);
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		}

Note that splitting out any non-trivial ioctl into it's own small helper
function gives generally much cleaner code.

> +	if (pps_devt)
> +		unregister_chrdev_region(pps_devt, PPS_MAX_SOURCES);

Given that you have proper error handling in pps_init this can't
ever be zero.

> +
> +	pr_info("LinuxPPS API ver. %d removed\n", PPS_API_VERS);

Printing stuff on exit is rather noisy and should be avoided