Re: [PATCH 2/3] commands: implement devlookup to find device behind device file

[Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 02:40:34PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> For OF-enabled platforms with aliases, device file naming is pretty much
> solved: If there is mmc2 = &something, then we have a mmc2 device and
> a /dev/mmc2 device file. For other platforms like x86, EFI-provided
> devices are harder to get ahold of. Add a command to make this
> straight-forward to do in scripts. The main use of this is probably to
> access parameters like nt_signature or guid:
> 
>   devloop /dev/disk0 guid
> 
> This would print to console, but we have no output capture yet, so add
> an optional -v VARIABLE parameter as well to allow easy use from
> scripts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  commands/Kconfig     | 13 ++++++++
>  commands/Makefile    |  1 +
>  commands/devlookup.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 87 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 commands/devlookup.c
> 
> diff --git a/commands/Kconfig b/commands/Kconfig
> index fb4dcefed8bf..5bab78fd1ce7 100644
> --- a/commands/Kconfig
> +++ b/commands/Kconfig
> @@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ config CMD_DEVINFO
>  	  If called with a device path being the argument, devinfo shows more
>  	  default information about this device and its parameters.
>  
> +config CMD_DEVLOOKUP
> +	tristate
> +	prompt "devlookup"
> +	help
> +	  Look up device behind device file and its parameters
> +
> +	  devlookup [-v VAR] /dev/DEVICE [parameter]
> +
> +          Detects the device behind a device file and outputs it,
> +          unless a second argument is given. In that case the device
> +          parameter with that name is looked up. Specifying -v VARIABLE
> +          will write output to VARIABLE instead of printing it.
> +
>  config CMD_DEVUNBIND
>  	tristate
>  	prompt "devunbind"
> diff --git a/commands/Makefile b/commands/Makefile
> index 6c3a7a1dabcd..b43da1a80173 100644
> --- a/commands/Makefile
> +++ b/commands/Makefile
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_DETECT)	+= detect.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOT)		+= boot.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_DEVINFO)	+= devinfo.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_DEVUNBIND)	+= devunbind.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_DEVLOOKUP)	+= devlookup.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_DRVINFO)	+= drvinfo.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_READF)		+= readf.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_MENUTREE)	+= menutree.o
> diff --git a/commands/devlookup.c b/commands/devlookup.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9599df7b10bc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/commands/devlookup.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +#include <common.h>
> +#include <command.h>
> +#include <fs.h>
> +#include <getopt.h>
> +#include <malloc.h>
> +#include <linux/stat.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
> +#include <environment.h>
> +
> +static int report(const char *variable, const char *val)
> +{
> +	if (variable)
> +		return setenv(variable, val);
> +
> +	if (!val)
> +		return -errno;
> +
> +	printf("%s\n", val);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int do_devlookup(int argc, char *argv[])
> +{
> +	const char *variable = NULL, *devicefile, *paramname;
> +	struct cdev *cdev;
> +	int opt;
> +
> +	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "v:")) > 0) {
> +		switch(opt) {
> +		case 'v':
> +			variable = optarg;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (argc - optind == 0 || argc - optind > 2)
> +		return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;
> +
> +	devicefile = argv[optind];
> +	paramname  = argv[optind+1];
> +
> +	if (!strstarts(devicefile, "/dev/"))
> +		return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;

Should we skip the /dev/ part so that we can allow cdev names directly?
Something like:

	if (strstarts(devicefile, "/dev/"))
		devicefile += sizeof "/dev/" - 1;

Sascha


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