Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] gpiolib: Discourage to use formatting strings in line names

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 01:39:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:19 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 4:14 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Currently the documentation for line names allows to use %u inside
> > > the alternative name. This is broken in character device approach
> > > from day 1 and being in use solely in sysfs.
> > >
> > > Character device interface has a line number as a part of its address,
> > > so the users better rely on it. Hence remove the misleading documentation.
> > >
> > > On top of that, there are no in-kernel users (out of 6, if I'm correct)
> > > for such names and moreover if one exists it won't help in distinguishing
> > > lines with the same naming as '%u' will also be in them and we will get
> > > a warning in gpiochip_set_desc_names() for such cases.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Meanwhile, Cc'ing to Kent as well.
>

I saw it - makes total sense to me too.

Reviewed-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>