On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Markus Pargmann <m...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> The latest gpio hogging mechanism assigns each gpio a 'line-name' in the > devicetree. The 'name' field is different from the 'label' field. > 'label' is only used for requested GPIOs to describe its current use by > driver or userspace. > > The 'name' field describes the GPIO itself, not the use. This is most > likely identical to the label in the schematic on the GPIO line and > should help to find this particular GPIO. > > This is equivalent to the gpiochip->names array. However names should be > stored in the GPIO descriptor. We will use gpiochip->names in the future > only as initializer for the GPIO descriptors for drivers that assign > GPIO names hardcoded. All other GPIO names will be parsed from DT and > directly assigned to the GPIO descriptor. > > This patch adds a helper function to find gpio descriptors by name > instead of gpio number. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <m...@pengutronix.de> Patch applied. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
