Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] gpiolib: provide gpio_device_find_by_label()

Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-27T11:22:48Z

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 9:19 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> >
> > 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);
> > +}
>
> I am still wondering if we can oblige providers to have label to be non-empty.
>

Of course we can. Just bail out of gpiochip_add_data_with_key() if it
is. But that's material for a different patch.

Bart