linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] GPIO: Add gpio

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:53:04 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] GPIO: Add gpio_lookup

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:53:58PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > (I'm less worried about the uniqueness side, BTW; it just means drivers
> > need to create meaningful names for their GPIOs.)

> I don't see how they *can* though ... unless they're dynamically
> allocated using a scheme like "combine <this device's sysfs name>
> with <token>".  Consider two PCI cards with two different GPIOs
> for their "camera_active" LED... "camera_active" is meaningful,
> but unusable because it's not unique.

I guess the clock API style dev/dev_name based deduping would do the job
here, though that's a separate question from the general usefulness of
this sort of lookup framework.
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