linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/23] gpiolib: unexport devprop_gpiochip_set

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Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 12:53:51 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/23] gpiolib: unexport devprop_gpiochip_set_names()

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:42 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> >
> > Now that devprop_gpiochip_set_names() is only used in a single place
> > inside drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c, there's no need anymore for it to be
> > exported or to even live in its own source file. Pull this function into
> > the core source file for gpiolib.
>
> I have mixed feelings about this. We may simply unexport and attach object file
> to gpiolib.o. Would it be expected to see more functions in this file in the
> future?
>

This file was created for this function alone over 4 years ago and
never saw any new routines. Personally I think there's no reason to
keep a single helper in its own file. We usually only split big chunks
of code out of gpiolib.c.

Bart