Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 03/18] GPIO: gpio-generic: Add label to platform data | From | Pawel Moll <> | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:57:19 +0000 |
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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@arm.com> 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@arm.com> > > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com> > > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> > > 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...
Paweł
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