Hi Linus,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:23 PM Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:18 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Currently GPIO controllers can only be referred to by label in GPIO
lookup tables.

Add support for looking them up by "gpiochipN" name, with "N" the
corresponding GPIO device's ID number.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Ulrich Hecht <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Eugeniu Rosca <redacted>
Tested-by: Eugeniu Rosca <redacted>

Just like with patch 2/5 I have the same problem here that
the commit message doesn't state the technical reason why
we need to change this and support the device name in these
tables and not just labels.

As these "gpiochipN" names are not stable, I will drop this patch, and
the related support.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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