Re: [PATCH] gpio: keep the GPIO line names internal

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This looks good (apart from the checkpatch warning for the warning
> message string).

Yeah the GPIO maintainer is liberal about that rule...

> You also need to revert ddd5404007b8 ("gpio-sysfs: Use gpio descriptor
> name instead of gpiochip names array") however as this is an ABI change.
> Otherwise pins with a name in DT will now be exported using the gpio name
> rather than number as they used to be. [ The current behaviour is
> maintained by exporting names from chip->names for hard coded names
> only. ]

I think it is ABI-correct: it uses desc->name if that is set, and
currently that is only set from chip->names[] so status quo.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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