@@ -382,10 +382,19 @@ static int devprop_gpiochip_set_names(struct gpio_chip *chip)
if (count < 0)
return 0;
- if (count > gdev->ngpio) {
- dev_warn(&gdev->dev, "gpio-line-names is length %d but should be at most length %d",
- count, gdev->ngpio);
- count = gdev->ngpio;
+ /*
+ * When offset is set in the driver side we assume the driver internally
+ * is using more than one gpiochip per the same device. We have to stop
+ * setting friendly names if the specified ones with 'gpio-line-names'
+ * are less than the offset in the device itself. This means all the
+ * lines are not present for every single pin within all the internal
+ * gpiochips.
+ */
+ if (count <= chip->offset) {
+ dev_warn(&gdev->dev, "gpio-line-names too short (length %d) "
+ "cannot map names for the gpiochip at offset %u\n",
+ count, chip->offset);
+ return 0;
}
names = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*names), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -400,8 +409,22 @@ static int devprop_gpiochip_set_names(struct gpio_chip *chip)
return ret;
}
+ /*
+ * When more that one gpiochip per device is used, 'count' can
+ * contain at most number gpiochips x chip->ngpio. We have to
+ * correctly distribute all defined lines taking into account
+ * chip->offset as starting point from where we will assign
+ * the names to pins from the 'names' array. Since property
+ * 'gpio-line-names' cannot contains gaps, we have to be sure
+ * we only assign those pins that really exists since chip->ngpio
+ * can be different of the chip->offset.
+ */
+ count = (count > chip->offset) ? count - chip->offset : count;
+ if (count > chip->ngpio)
+ count = chip->ngpio;
+
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
- gdev->descs[i].name = names[i];
+ gdev->descs[i].name = names[chip->offset + i];
kfree(names);
@@ -312,6 +312,9 @@ struct gpio_irq_chip {
* get rid of the static GPIO number space in the long run.
* @ngpio: the number of GPIOs handled by this controller; the last GPIO
* handled is (base + ngpio - 1).
+ * @offset: when multiple gpio chips belong to the same device this
+ * can be used as offset within the device so friendly names can
+ * be properly assigned.
* @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
@@ -398,6 +401,7 @@ struct gpio_chip {
int base;
u16 ngpio;
+ u16 offset;
const char *const *names;
bool can_sleep;