Re: [RFC PATCH] gpio: sysfs: make the sysfs export behavior consistent

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 9:42 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For drivers or board files that set gpio_chip->names, the links to the
> GPIO attribute group created on sysfs export will be named after the
> line's name set in that array. For lines that are named using device
> properties, the names pointer of the gpio_chip struct is never assigned
> so they are exported as if they're not named.
>
> The ABI documentation does not mention the former behavior and given
> that the majority of modern systems use device-tree, ACPI or other way
> of passing GPIO names using device properties - bypassing gc->names -
> it's better to make the behavior consistent by always exporting lines as
> "gpioXYZ".
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm in favor of this.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Story time:

That's a good story :) Fun to see how you arrived at this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij