From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Pargmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: keep the GPIO line names internal Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:13:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20151006091316.GK19355@pengutronix.de> References: <1443050853-24601-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> <20151004133742.GO4284@localhost> <20151005100147.GB25143@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4" Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:36729 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751653AbbJFJNT (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:13:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Walleij Cc: Johan Hovold , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Alexandre Courbot --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:07:09PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Johan Hovold wrote: >=20 > >> 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? >=20 > 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 --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWE5CsAAoJEEpcgKtcEGQQxzgQAI4Lz6NIe0uwqSJs+cbxJmRJ T0Z/MwSQLQPqlGf8FMgmdlAZrj86t5UszGu0R4tk5TDfvdbDhx9j2ssESKd6O2L9 wsys6o9xthvY1b6VDqXCq+TxCVeppr1510uyynvGBZ8DxwRUPm1aSssW8HoASwyN lQROC1myaKyX2/VcaCcinUIEgT8GwboV5axhBjgfBs+F9i5bRaqlX+VWyum9DoEb kenSLzpgbzau6UcmN5IK2dnBKbg8h7MmCq9MnafXcAmWKD7yhEfJB7Li93zTY2Pt rXnG1MaTV1NJpt0KeMVor8Gcg5DqF3DZ3MkJtTyngzDQ5RU11kG2cuRbX8UDjXHt ZnWtFi8Co/c7QFAfD75sIdTW2mAjGGekLymTKKJay9jtUIrjdJGbFvIKiQw0vBX2 iTlg4MsMcFD27s3xH9QR2mQZ7VWQueIt3GYckeJ9PDaRkFSmSFSo6rOgUp4FkzeN hFieUdCRGahg4atvGNnica/b3VrPZnnnjkv1Zr/YlZnYJr5rGtLyfyjplJjzPe2+ rfGCeEVJdQ+2N+Hry0bkioxfHiAN1SDwK54rZlWrM/rsfM3yR4rrUeoWARCftVrk cEUrzy6/wusw/bJ87ErH95o4X7N/hhHydlHl8bkrjhG76XhDcalV8ihZRZ+80BrS GJhLYyd5SkzrKvfRotPO =K+ko -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4--