Re: [PATCH 3/3] gpiolib: use chip->names for symlinks, always use gpioN for device names

From: David Brownell
Date: Thu Dec 10 2009 - 22:39:37 EST


On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Jani Nikula wrote:
> While the device names are now unique again, collisions in chip->names
> will still prevent duplicates from being exported to sysfs.

That's why I was never a real fan of chip->names...

IMO a "good" solution in this space needs to accept that
those names are not going to be globally unique ... but
that they'll be unique within some context, of necessity.

If Greg doesn't want to see those names under classes,
so be it ... but where should they then appear?

- Dave
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