On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Markus Pargmann <mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch adds a sysfs attribute 'name' to gpios that were exported. It > exposes the newly added name property of gpio descriptors. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The previous hunk adding the name to the sysfs ABI should be in this patch. But I have a problem with this. What is the rationale? The directory that contains the file already has this name. Why should this information be duplicated? Yours, Linus Walleij -- 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 v3 6/9] gpiolib-sysfs: Show gpio-name in /sys/class/gpio/gpio*/name
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