Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] gpio: DT: Rephrase "gpios" of hog node to support multiple gpios

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Monday 14 March 2016 10:01 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 06:43 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > The property "gpios" of GPIO hog node support the multiple GPIO entries.
> > Rephrase the details of this property for this new support.
> >
> > Add details of new property "label" for GPIO label name.
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt 
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
>
> >   Optional properties:
> >   - line-name:  The GPIO label name. If not present the node name is 
> > used.
> > +- label:      The GPIO lable name. This can have multiple string for 
> > GPIO
> > +          label names to match with the GPIOs in "gpios" properties.
> > +          If line-name is prosent than name is taken from line-name. If
> > +          it is not then the name will be taken from label. If both are
> > +          not available then node name is used for GPIO label name.
>
> Why are there two properties for the same thing? Why not just allow 
> line-name to have multiple entries instead of introducing a new property?

We can use the lin-names also but per disucssion on the patch V1 of
    gpio: of: Add support to have multiple gpios in gpio-hog

Markus suggested the discussion about the discussion 
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/10/194):
    "Device tree binding documentation for gpio-switch"


and on that, label is used.  Also for names, "label" is going to very 
common.

So I added new property "label" to support multiple names.