Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] gpio: add support to get local gpio number

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What about renaming gpio_chip_hwgpio() everywhere
> > to gpiod_to_offet(), remove it from drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
> > and export it in <linux/gpio/consumer.h> instead?
>
> That's also possible but then we have to include the consumer.h header
> within the gpiolib.c and this seems to be wrong. But since I'm not the
> maintainer it is up to you and Bart. Both ways are possible,

What about following the pattern by the clk subsystem and
create <linux/gpio/private.h> and put it there?

It should be an indication to people to not use these features
lightly. We can decorate the header file with some warnings.

Yours,
Linus Walleij