[PATCH 4/9] gpio: Add 'name' to the gpio descriptor struct

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Tue Jul 28 02:24:12 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:32:45AM +0200, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> The latest gpio hogging mechanism assigns each gpio a 'line-name' in the
> devicetree. The 'name' field is different from the 'label' field.
> 'label' is only used for requested GPIOs to describe its current use by
> driver or userspace.
> 
> The 'name' field describes the GPIO itself, not the use. This is most
> likely identical to the label in the schematic on the GPIO line and
> should help to find this particular GPIO.

You merge this one with whatever patch starts using the name field.

Johan



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