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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c7
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/gpio.h5
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 42fb2fd24c0..83c3fe3a136 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool direction_may_change)
unsigned long flags;
struct gpio_desc *desc;
int status = -EINVAL;
+ char *ioname = NULL;
/* can't export until sysfs is available ... */
if (!gpio_class.p) {
@@ -461,11 +462,14 @@ int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool direction_may_change)
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
+ if (desc->chip->names && desc->chip->names[gpio - desc->chip->base])
+ ioname = desc->chip->names[gpio - desc->chip->base];
+
if (status == 0) {
struct device *dev;
dev = device_create(&gpio_class, desc->chip->dev, MKDEV(0, 0),
- desc, "gpio%d", gpio);
+ desc, ioname ? ioname : "gpio%d", gpio);
if (dev) {
if (direction_may_change)
status = sysfs_create_group(&dev->kobj,
@@ -513,6 +517,7 @@ void gpio_unexport(unsigned gpio)
mutex_lock(&sysfs_lock);
desc = &gpio_desc[gpio];
+
if (test_bit(FLAG_EXPORT, &desc->flags)) {
struct device *dev = NULL;
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
index 81797ec9ab2..d6c379dc64f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ struct module;
* handled is (base + ngpio - 1).
* @can_sleep: flag must be set iff get()/set() methods sleep, as they
* must while accessing GPIO expander chips over I2C or SPI
+ * @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 gpio_chip can help platforms abstract various sources of GPIOs so
* they can all be accessed through a common programing interface.
@@ -92,6 +96,7 @@ struct gpio_chip {
struct gpio_chip *chip);
int base;
u16 ngpio;
+ char **names;
unsigned can_sleep:1;
unsigned exported:1;
};