The gpio_chip label is useful for userspace to understand what kind of GPIO chip it is dealing with. Let's store a copy of this label in the gpio_device, add it to the struct passed to userspace for GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL and modify lsgpio to show it.
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| 16 | /** | 16 | /** |
| 17 | * struct gpiochip_info - Information about a certain GPIO chip | 17 | * struct gpiochip_info - Information about a certain GPIO chip |
| 18 | * @name: the name of this GPIO chip | 18 | * @name: the name of this GPIO chip |
| 19 | * @label: a functional name for this GPIO chip | ||
| 19 | * @lines: number of GPIO lines on this chip | 20 | * @lines: number of GPIO lines on this chip |
| 20 | */ | 21 | */ |
| 21 | struct gpiochip_info { | 22 | struct gpiochip_info { |
| 22 | char name[32]; | 23 | char name[32]; |
| 24 | char label[32]; | ||
| 23 | __u32 lines; | 25 | __u32 lines; |
| 24 | }; | 26 | }; |
| 25 | 27 | ||