[PATCH v3 6/9] gpiolib-sysfs: Show gpio-name in /sys/class/gpio/gpio*/name

[mpa@pengutronix.de (Markus Pargmann)]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 06:07:51PM -0700, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds a sysfs attribute 'name' to gpios that were exported. It
> > exposes the newly added name property of gpio descriptors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
> 
> The previous hunk adding the name to the sysfs ABI should
> be in this patch.
> 
> But I have a problem with this. What is the rationale? The directory
> that contains the file already has this name. Why should this
> information be duplicated?

No reason for that. As described in the summary, I wasn't sure if this
makes sense but included it anyway from the last series version. So it
can simply be dropped.

Thanks,

Markus

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