Greetings (and the usual: Happy New Year!) On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 17:26 +0000, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Pawel Moll <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> > > Cc: Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> > > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]> > > 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
Well, this has been discussed almost to death already (as you may remember ;-) in the thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg00072.html (only portions survived) Although I was in favour of the generic binding (as were you if I remember correctly), the final non-conclusion was not to open the "generic door". Fair enough with me, I went the defined-in-code way here... Paweł -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
