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| author | Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> | 2024-05-05 17:14:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> | 2024-05-07 09:43:17 +0200 |
| commit | 2b5ae9c7d9e5ef4bc52c932fdf10328feb5167c6 (patch) | |
| tree | aa9e417aeaf848563a8c69919f6f1e6483c548ef | |
| parent | 68a25c36718e480277b487ae286553c177988a1a (diff) | |
gpiolib: Discourage to use formatting strings in line names
Currently the documentation for line names allows to use %u inside
the alternative name. This is broken in character device approach
from day 1 and being in use solely in sysfs.
Character device interface has a line number as a part of its address,
so the users better rely on it. Hence remove the misleading documentation.
On top of that, there are no in-kernel users (out of 6, if I'm correct)
for such names and moreover if one exists it won't help in distinguishing
lines with the same naming as '%u' will also be in them and we will get
a warning in gpiochip_set_desc_names() for such cases.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240505141420.627398-1-andy.shevchenko@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h index f8617eaf08ba..0032bb6e7d8f 100644 --- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h +++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h @@ -376,9 +376,7 @@ struct gpio_irq_chip { * @names: if set, must be an array of strings to use as alternative * names for the GPIOs in this chip. Any entry in the array * may be NULL if there is no alias for the GPIO, however the - * array must be @ngpio entries long. A name can include a single printk - * format specifier for an unsigned int. It is substituted by the actual - * number of the gpio. + * array must be @ngpio entries long. * @can_sleep: flag must be set iff get()/set() methods sleep, as they * must while accessing GPIO expander chips over I2C or SPI. This * implies that if the chip supports IRQs, these IRQs need to be threaded |