Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] gpio: add support to get local gpio number

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 01:49:42PM +0100, Marco Felsch wrote:
> On 19-11-28 11:46, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > śr., 27 lis 2019 o 14:59 Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> > >
> > > Sometimes consumers needs to know the gpio-chip local gpio number of a
> > > 'struct gpio_desc' for further configuration. This is often the case for
> > > mfd devices.
> > >
> > 
> > We already have this support. It's just a matter of exporting it, so
> > maybe adjust the commit message to not be confusing.
> 
> Therefore I mentioned the consumers.
> 
> > That being said: I'm not really a fan of this - the whole idea of gpio
> > descriptors was to make them opaque and their hardware offsets
> > irrelevant. :(
> 
> I know therefore I added a driver local helper but this wasn't the way
> Linus wanted to go..
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c        |  6 ++++++
> > >  include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > index 104ed299d5ea..7709648313fc 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > > @@ -4377,6 +4377,12 @@ int gpiod_count(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiod_count);
> > >
> > > +int gpiod_to_offset(struct gpio_desc *desc)
> > 
> > Maybe call it: gpiod_desc_to_offset()?
> 
> The function name is proposed by Linus too so Linus what's your
> oppinion?

INAL (I'm not a Linus) but I wonder what the 'd' in gpiod stands for.
Assuming it already meand "desc" I'd prefer gpiod_to_offset.

Best regards
Uwe

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