Re: [PATCH] gpio: Ignore gpio names with empty strings

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 10:18 PM Brandon Maier
<brandon.maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If a gpiochip sets it's gpio_chip->names, it must give every gpio a
> unique name. However we may not need to name all gpios, for example if
> they are unused. gpio-line-names allows this by ignoring gpios with
> empty names. But gpiochip_set_desc_names() will yell at us, as the empty
> name will collide with other empty names. Fix this by skipping empty
> strings, so that they look like unnamed gpios.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Isn't the real problem that they should be passing NULL
rather than "" empty string for line names?

Yours,
Linus Walleij