Re: [PATCH v2] gpio / ACPI: Add label to the gpio request

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Tobias Diedrich
> <ranma+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In leds-gpio.c create_gpio_led only the legacy path propagates the label
>> by passing it into devm_gpio_request_one. Similarily gpio_keys_polled.c
>> also neglects to propagate the name to the gpio subsystem.
>>
>> On the newer devicetree/acpi path the label is lost as far as the GPIO
>> subsystem goes (it is only retained as name in struct gpio_led.
>>
>> Amend devm_get_gpiod_from_child to take an additonal (optional) label
>> argument and propagate it so it will show up in /sys/kernel/debug/gpio.
>>
>> So instead of:
>>
>> GPIOs 288-511, platform/PRP0001:00, AMD SBX00:
>>  gpio-475 (?                   ) in  hi
>>  gpio-477 (?                   ) out hi
>>  gpio-478 (?                   ) out lo
>>  gpio-479 (?                   ) out hi
>>
>> we get the much nicer output:
>>
>> GPIOs 288-511, platform/PRP0001:00, AMD SBX00:
>>  gpio-475 (switch1             ) in  hi
>>  gpio-477 (led1                ) out hi
>>  gpio-478 (led2                ) out lo
>>  gpio-479 (led3                ) out hi
>
> We want to reuse higher-level information (like the con_id) as much as
> possible to generate labels, but in the case of
> devm_get_gpiod_from_child() there is no such information available
> anyway, so why not.
>
> Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>

I don't have the actual v2 patch in my inbox :(

Tobias, can you resend a v3 with the ACKs.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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