Re: gpio-line-names policy

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

Hi Linus,

On Wed 2023-02-08 @ 04:01:05 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 4:07 PM Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But what about those lines that go out to general purpose headers such as
> > the 40 pins of the Raspberry Pi header? Most SBCs have some set of header
> > that's available to users to connect whatever devices they wish, many of
> > them have adopted the rpi's 40-pin layout.
> 
> I think using the names on the header is fine, what I didn't want to see
> is things like the name of the pin on the SoC package or names made
> up from kernel-internal software constructs. As long as it is something
> real, and preferably unique I'm fine with it.
> 
> One early example is the HiKey N96 board:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3670-hikey970.dts

Thank you for the clarification. Thinking from the user's point of view, I
added the actual pin number, then the SoC name, then the pin's label.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230208014504.18899-1-twoerner@gmail.com/T/#u

I'll send a v2 with just the pin's label. Would leaving the pin number, in
addition to the name, be okay?

Best regards,
	Trevor