Re: [RFC 03/18] GPIO: gpio-generic: Add label to platform data

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> When registering more than one platform device, it is
> useful to set the gpio chip label in the platform data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>

Good point. But what about also adding device tree support for
naming the chips while you're at it?

I imagine a generic gpiochip property in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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