Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Rename devm_get_gpiod_from_child()

[Mika Westerberg]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:51:06PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> fwnode_get_named_gpiod()
> devm_get_gpiod_from_child()
> 
> Both are taking a fwnode as argument and the naming is as
> inconsistent as it can be.
> 
> Some more churn should be expected as a side
> effect of naming this function wrong in the first place.
> The fwnode API change was on fast-forward and mistakes
> were made, also by me, mea culpa.

The name fwnode_get_named_gpiod() tries to follow of_get_named_gpio() so
that we can easily convert a driver to use fwnodes instead. The other
function is named so because we look child fwnodes under a device. For
that, yes certainly we could have invented a better name ;-)