linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] gpio: of: Add support to have multiple gpios in gpio-hog

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Message-ID: <56E16053.60802@nvidia.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:23:55 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Markus Pargmann <mpa@...gutronix.de>
CC:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>, <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	<robh+dt@...nel.org>, <pawel.moll@....com>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>, <treding@...dia.com>,
	Benoit Parrot <bparrot@...com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] gpio: of: Add support to have multiple gpios in gpio-hog


On Thursday 10 March 2016 04:46 PM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2016 12:37:32 Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 March 2016 10:47 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 03/09/2016 06:20 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>> The problem with that is the description used when acquiring the GPIO
>>> is just "wlan_input", "wlan_output", or "wlan_control". There's
>>> nothing to indicate what those individual pins do (perhaps one is a
>>> reset signal, one is a regulator enable, etc.?) By requiring separate
>>> nodes for each GPIO, then the node name can provide a meaningful
>>> semantic name/description for each GPIO, which provides much more
>>> information.
>>>
>> On this case, we have already property "line-name" and passed the name
>> of the gpio via this property.
>> The property names is "line-name" which is good for one string. We can
>> support other property "line-names" with multiple string per GPIO index.
>>
>> line-names = "wlan-reset", "wlan-enable";
> There is currently a discussion about the future bindings for subnodes in GPIO
> controller nodes. Please have a look at these two mail threads:
>
> 	"Device tree binding documentation for gpio-switch"
> 	"gpio: of: Add support to have multiple gpios in gpio-hog"

Second one is this patch only. Is it by intention?

The binding details about the gpio-switch and names are given by 
property "lable". I think property "label" is standard way of going 
forward i.e. I post similar patch for gpio-keys device name from DT 
after got review comment.

So here,  we can have the gpio names  under property "label" or "labels".


Or am I missing anything?