This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gpio: label descriptors using the device name to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: gpio-label-descriptors-using-the-device-name.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 13:58:16 CEST 2018 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:31:11 +0100 Subject: gpio: label descriptors using the device name From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 24e78079bf2250874e33da2e7cfbb6db72d3caf4 ] Some GPIO lines appear named "?" in the lsgpio dump due to their requesting drivers not passing a reasonable label. Most typically this happens if a device tree node just defines gpios = <...> and not foo-gpios = <...>, the former gets named "foo" and the latter gets named "?". However the struct device passed in is always valid so let's just label the GPIO with dev_name() on the device if no proper label was passed. Cc: Reported-by: Jason Kridner <jkridner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jason Kridner <jkridner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -3340,7 +3340,8 @@ struct gpio_desc *__must_check gpiod_get return desc; } - status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id); + /* If a connection label was passed use that, else use the device name as label */ + status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id ? con_id : dev_name(dev)); if (status < 0) return ERR_PTR(status); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/gpio-label-descriptors-using-the-device-name.patch queue-4.14/gpio-thunderx-fix-error-return-code-in-thunderx_gpio_probe.patch queue-4.14/pinctrl-baytrail-enable-glitch-filter-for-gpios-used-as-interrupts.patch