Re: "leds: gpio: Use generic support for composing LED names" breaks gpio debugfs

From: Jacek Anaszewski
Date: Thu Dec 05 2019 - 16:29:32 EST


On 12/5/19 12:45 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:52 PM Jacek Anaszewski
> <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It seem that the only proper solution would be introducing a new
>> pre_register_cdev(const char *name) op to the LED core, that would allow
>> drivers to come up with their implementation thereof. In this particular
>> case leds-gpio driver would need to put there gpiod initialization.
>
> I don't know the particulars but if it helps you can at any point
> call:
> int gpiod_set_consumer_name(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *name);
>
> For any successfully obtained descriptor, to set the consumer name,
> i.e. the text appearing in debugfs and the GPIO character device.

Thanks for the pointer. I've just used that to fix the issue.

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski