Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] gpiolib: provide gpio_device_find_by_label()

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:57 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > By far the most common way of looking up GPIO devices is using their
> > label. Provide a helpers for that to avoid every user implementing their
> > own matching function.
>
> ...
>
> > +static int gpio_chip_match_by_label(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *label)
> > +{
> > +     return gc->label && !strcmp(gc->label, label);
>
> When gc->label can be NULL?
>

Whenever the driver doesn't assign it. The copy in gpio_device is set
to "unknown" for display in logs/user-space but not the one in
gpio_chip.

Bart

> > +}
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>