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

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Yes, but this work was aiming at generalising the hogs so that they
> could later be requested (and exported), right?

Yeah something like so... thinking about it we should indeed
takes the names directly from chip->names[] for this, so we
can use the name field in the gpio descriptor for the "real"
chardev interface later.

I'll revert the patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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