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Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:31:16 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] usb: serial: xr_serial: Add gpiochip support
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On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 06:22:50PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 01:41:52PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:57 AM Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:

> > I think if this driver already has unique line-names per-gpiochip
> > we could actually make it depend on !GPIO_SYSFS and
> > just add the names.
> 
> Sure thing.
> 
> Johan, if you are okay with this I can resubmit incorporating Linus's
> suggestion.

Let's wait a bit with adding the names.

That can possibly be done as a follow-up too even if removing GPIO_SYSFS
support later is not ideal in case that's the path chosen (we'd have a
similar problem with the existing USB-serial GPIO implementations though).

Johan