Re: [PATCH] gpio: keep the GPIO line names internal

[Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>]

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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:07:09PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> >> I think it is ABI-correct: it uses desc->name if that is set, and
> >> currently that is only set from chip->names[] so status quo.
> >
> > Yes, but this work was aiming at generalising the hogs so that they
> > could later be requested (and exported), right?
> 
> Yeah something like so... thinking about it we should indeed
> takes the names directly from chip->names[] for this, so we
> can use the name field in the gpio descriptor for the "real"
> chardev interface later.

So what is this "real" chardev interface all about? What are the
requirements and features for such an interface? How is it supposed to
work? Was this already discussed somewhere?

Any chance that you both are at the ELCE?

Best Regards,

Markus

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