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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [RFC] gpiolib: introduce descriptor-based GPIO interface
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:34:25 +0000
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:06:34 +0900, Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2012 22:42:59 Grant Likely wrote:
> > how about "gpio_chip_hwnum()" to somewhat match irqdomain convention?
> 
> Sure, matching existing interfaces is better. "git grep hwnum" does not seem 
> to reveal much related to irqdomain though?

irqdomain actually uses "hwirq". "hwgpio" would be a closer analog than
'hwnum'.  At first I though hwgpio to be too goofy, but on further
reflection it probably has the least likelyhood of getting used
incorrectly.

g.