Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: at91: allow use of of gpio-line-names property

[Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On 2021-12-08 17:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 4:51 PM Alexander Dahl <ada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Am Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:32:03AM +0100 schrieb Peter Rosin:
>>> If no line name is given (by not having a gpio-line-names property,
>>> or by having empty "" strings for some lines), fall back to the
>>> existing pioC12-style line name scheme.
>>>
>>> It is useful to be able to explicitly name lines from the schematics
>>> or its function, rather than having the MCU names forced upon every
>>> user.
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>> I asked about this some months ago, but I saw no clear
>> direction in the discussion. So for reference:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/946021874.11132.1615900079722@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. AFAICS from that discussion we kinda agreed
> on the names being excluded from the ABI path. Hence there is good and
> bad news.
> 
> Bad one: NAK to this patch.
> Good one: Please, fix this in the gpiolib respective functions to make
> it once for all.
> 
> Disclaimer, I'm not a maintainer of this subsystem, I might be
> perfectly wrong in my understanding of the state of affairs, let's
> hear what Linus and Bart can tell us about the subject. Above are just
> my wishes as a contributor to and consumer of this subsystem on how
> things should be done.

Understood, I'll send a new patch for gpiolib.c instead.

Cheers,
Peter