Patch "gpio: label descriptors using the device name" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

gpio: label descriptors using the device name

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
gpio-label-descriptors-using-the-device-name.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:31:11 +0100
Subject: gpio: label descriptors using the device name

From: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 24e78079bf2250874e33da2e7cfbb6db72d3caf4 ]

Some GPIO lines appear named "?" in the lsgpio dump due to their requesting drivers not passing a reasonable label.

Most typically this happens if a device tree node just defines gpios = <...> and not foo-gpios = <...>, the former gets named "foo" and the latter gets named "?".

However the struct device passed in is always valid so let's just label the GPIO with dev_name() on the device if no proper label was passed.

---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -2145,7 +2145,8 @@ struct gpio_desc *__must_check gpiod_get
 		return desc;
 	}
 
-	status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id);
+	/* If a connection label was passed use that, else use the device name as label */
+	status = gpiod_request(desc, con_id ? con_id : dev_name(dev));
 	if (status < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(status);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/gpio-label-descriptors-using-the-device-name.patch