[RFC 03/18] GPIO: gpio-generic: Add label to platform data

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Dec 23 12:26:49 EST 2013


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com> wrote:

> When registering more than one platform device, it is
> useful to set the gpio chip label in the platform data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou at gmail.com>
> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton at enomsg.org>

Good point. But what about also adding device tree support for
naming the chips while you're at it?

I imagine a generic gpiochip property in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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