Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] usb: serial: xr_serial: Add gpiochip support

[Johan Hovold]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:58 AM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:32AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> > > If I google for the phrase "Detected name collision for GPIO name"
> > > I just find the code, our discussions and some USB serial devices
> > > warning about this so far.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should just make a patch to disallow it?
> >
> > That would make it impossible to provide name lines on hotpluggable
> > controllers, which would be nice to support.
> 
> I merged a patch for this now, let's tighten this loose end up.
> 
> Also: thanks for poking me about this, I should have looked into
> this ages ago :/ focus you know...

Yeah, tell me about it. :/

Johan