[PATCH v3 6/9] gpiolib-sysfs: Show gpio-name in /sys/class/gpio/gpio*/name

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> This patch adds a sysfs attribute 'name' to gpios that were exported. It
> exposes the newly added name property of gpio descriptors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>

The previous hunk adding the name to the sysfs ABI should
be in this patch.

But I have a problem with this. What is the rationale? The directory
that contains the file already has this name. Why should this
information be duplicated?

Yours,
Linus Walleij