Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Add for_each_gpio_suffix() helper

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On 14.08.19 10:48, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:18 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:27 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:25 PM Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
>>>> Add a helper macro to enable the interation over all supported GPIO
>>>> suffixes (currently "gpios" & "gpio"). This will be used by the serial
>>>> mctrl code to check, if a GPIO property exists before requesting it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
>>>> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>>>> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
>>>> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>>
>>> I really like this patch, it makes things so much more readable.
>>
>> Do we really need to spread this *-gpio" legacy support all over the kernel?
> 
> Not really :/
> 
> Isn't it possible to use something like gpiod_count(dev, "foo") to
> check for any GPIOs instead?

Good idea. I can rework my patch to use gpiod_count() to check if the
GPIO exists before requesting it. This way, we're not spreading the
legacy "-gpio" support any more.

But I'm unsure, if I should change the string malloc (kasprintf) to the
fixed length string on the stack as I've done in this patch version.

Thanks,
Stefan