On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:51:06PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > fwnode_get_named_gpiod() > devm_get_gpiod_from_child() > > Both are taking a fwnode as argument and the naming is as > inconsistent as it can be. > > Some more churn should be expected as a side > effect of naming this function wrong in the first place. > The fwnode API change was on fast-forward and mistakes > were made, also by me, mea culpa. The name fwnode_get_named_gpiod() tries to follow of_get_named_gpio() so that we can easily convert a driver to use fwnodes instead. The other function is named so because we look child fwnodes under a device. For that, yes certainly we could have invented a better name ;-)
