Re: [RFC 03/18] GPIO: gpio-generic: Add label to platform data

From: Pawel Moll
Date: Wed Jan 08 2014 - 10:57:26 EST


Greetings (and the usual: Happy New Year!)

On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 17:26 +0000, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When registering more than one platform device, it is
> > useful to set the gpio chip label in the platform data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Good point. But what about also adding device tree support for
> naming the chips while you're at it?
>
> I imagine a generic gpiochip property in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt

Well, this has been discussed almost to death already (as you may
remember ;-) in the thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg00072.html

(only portions survived)

Although I was in favour of the generic binding (as were you if I
remember correctly), the final non-conclusion was not to open the
"generic door". Fair enough with me, I went the defined-in-code way
here...

PaweÅ

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