On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:32:45AM +0200, Markus Pargmann wrote: > The latest gpio hogging mechanism assigns each gpio a 'line-name' in the > devicetree. The 'name' field is different from the 'label' field. > 'label' is only used for requested GPIOs to describe its current use by > driver or userspace. > > The 'name' field describes the GPIO itself, not the use. This is most > likely identical to the label in the schematic on the GPIO line and > should help to find this particular GPIO. You merge this one with whatever patch starts using the name field. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 4/9] gpio: Add 'name' to the gpio descriptor struct
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- Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] gpio: Add 'name' to the gpio descriptor struct
- From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:24:12 +0200
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