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

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 17:26 +0000, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> 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
>
> Well, this has been discussed almost to death already (as you may
> remember ;-) in the thread:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg00072.html
>
> (only portions survived)
>
> Although I was in favour of the generic binding (as were you if I
> remember correctly), the final non-conclusion was not to open the
> "generic door". Fair enough with me, I went the defined-in-code way
> here...

OK I buy this. I am willing to apply this patch. Just a problem:

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I can't apply this patch :-)

Please consult your fellow upstream developers on how to get
the mail out of the ARM offices in a form that I can apply...

Yours,
Linus Walleij