[PATCH] gpio: omap: make gpio numbering deterministical by using of aliases

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sat Jun 18 01:30:18 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko at ti.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't gpio-line-names be helpful for such cases as mentioned in [1],[2]
> But I don't know it these properties were exposed in legacy GPIO sysfs interface also.

The line names only expose through the chardev interface because the
sysfs ABI is frozen and should not be extended.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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