Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: rfkill: gpio: remove gpio names

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 20:56:11 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/20/2014 05:51 AM, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>> There is no use for them in this driver. This will fix a
>> static checker warning..
>
> Didn't you remove the use:
>
> - gpio = devm_gpiod_get_index(&pdev->dev, rfkill->reset_name, 0);
> + gpio = devm_gpiod_get_index(&pdev->dev, NULL, 0);
>
> doesn't that parameter get put into the sysfs GPIO debug file, so people
> can see which GPIOs are used for what?

That's correct. However using con_id to pass this results in different
behavior across DT and ACPI. A better way is to export the labeling
function so consumers can set meaningful labels themselves.


Cheers
ChenYu
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