Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Disallow identical line names in the same chip

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:29 AM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As I mentioned earlier, the not-globally unique warning only makes sense
> for cases where all names comes from something like devicetree, and we
> shouldn't warn if we plug in two identical USB devices that provide
> default line names.
>
> Not sure it's even warranted to warn even if those default names collide
> with the names provided in devicetree. Perhaps best to just drop the
> flat-namespace assumption entirely and make sure gpiolib and the
> userspace library can handle that.

You're right. (As usual.)

I dropped the global collision warning when applying.

Yours,
Linus Walleij