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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-18 02:39:42 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-18 02:39:42 +0200
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parentMIPS: do away with ARCH_[WANT_OPTIONAL|REQUIRE]_GPIOLIB (diff)
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Merge tag 'gpio-v4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij: "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel cycle v4.7: Core infrastructural changes: - Support for natively single-ended GPIO driver stages. This means that if the hardware has registers to configure open drain or open source configuration, we use that rather than (as we did before) try to emulate it by switching the line to an input to get high impedance. This is also documented throughly in Documentation/gpio/driver.txt for those of you who did not understand one word of what I just wrote. - Start to do away with the unnecessarily complex and unitelligible ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB and ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB, another evolutional artifact from the time when the GPIO subsystem was unmaintained. Archs can now just select GPIOLIB and be done with it, cleanups to arches will trickle in for the next kernel. Some minor archs ACKed the changes immediately so these are included in this pull request. - Advancing the use of the data pointer inside the GPIO device for storing driver data by switching the PowerPC, Super-H Unicore and a few other subarches or subsystem drivers in ALSA SoC, Input, serial, SSB, staging etc to use it. - The initialization now reads the input/output state of the GPIO lines, so that each GPIO descriptor knows - if this callback is implemented - whether the line is input or output. This also reflects nicely in userspace "lsgpio". - It is now possible to name GPIO producer names, line names, from the device tree. (Platform data has been supported for a while). I bet we will get a similar mechanism for ACPI one of those days. This makes is possible to get sensible producer names for e.g. GPIO rails in "lsgpio" in userspace. New drivers: - New driver for the Loongson1. - The XLP driver now supports Broadcom Vulcan ARM64. - The IT87 driver now supports IT8620 and IT8628. - The PCA953X driver now supports Galileo Gen2. Driver improvements: - MCP23S08 was switched to use the gpiolib irqchip helpers and now also suppors level-triggered interrupts. - 74x164 and RCAR now supports the .set_multiple() callback - AMDPT was converted to use generic GPIO. - TC3589x, TPS65218, SX150X, F7188X, MENZ127, VX855, WM831X, WM8994 support the new single ended callback for open drain and in some cases open source. - Implement the .get_direction() callback for a few more drivers like PL061, Xgene. Cleanups: - Paul Gortmaker combed through the drivers and de-modularized those who are not really modules. - Move the GPIO poweroff DT bindings to the power subdir where they belong. - Rename gpio-generic.c to gpio-mmio.c, which is much more to the point. That's what it is handling, nothing more, nothing less" * tag 'gpio-v4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (126 commits) MIPS: do away with ARCH_[WANT_OPTIONAL|REQUIRE]_GPIOLIB gpio: zevio: make it explicitly non-modular gpio: timberdale: make it explicitly non-modular gpio: stmpe: make it explicitly non-modular gpio: sodaville: make it explicitly non-modular pinctrl: sh-pfc: Let gpio_chip.to_irq() return zero on error gpio: dwapb: Add ACPI device ID for DWAPB GPIO controller on X-Gene platforms gpio: dt-bindings: add wd,mbl-gpio bindings gpio: of: make it possible to name GPIO lines gpio: make gpiod_to_irq() return negative for NO_IRQ gpio: xgene: implement .get_direction() gpio: xgene: Enable ACPI support for X-Gene GFC GPIO driver gpio: tegra: Implement gpio_get_direction callback gpio: set up initial state from .get_direction() gpio: rename gpio-generic.c into gpio-mmio.c gpio: generic: fix GPIO_GENERIC_PLATFORM is set to module case gpio: dwapb: add gpio-signaled acpi event support gpio: dwapb: convert device node to fwnode gpio: dwapb: remove name from dwapb_port_property gpio/qoriq: select IRQ_DOMAIN ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@ Every GPIO controller node must contain both an empty "gpio-controller"
property, and a #gpio-cells integer property, which indicates the number of
cells in a gpio-specifier.
+Some system-on-chips (SoCs) use the concept of GPIO banks. A GPIO bank is an
+instance of a hardware IP core on a silicon die, usually exposed to the
+programmer as a coherent range of I/O addresses. Usually each such bank is
+exposed in the device tree as an individual gpio-controller node, reflecting
+the fact that the hardware was synthesized by reusing the same IP block a
+few times over.
+
Optionally, a GPIO controller may have a "ngpios" property. This property
indicates the number of in-use slots of available slots for GPIOs. The
typical example is something like this: the hardware register is 32 bits
@@ -145,6 +152,21 @@ additional bitmask is needed to specify which GPIOs are actually in use,
and which are dummies. The bindings for this case has not yet been
specified, but should be specified if/when such hardware appears.
+Optionally, a GPIO controller may have a "gpio-line-names" property. This is
+an array of strings defining the names of the GPIO lines going out of the
+GPIO controller. This name should be the most meaningful producer name
+for the system, such as a rail name indicating the usage. Package names
+such as pin name are discouraged: such lines have opaque names (since they
+are by definition generic purpose) and such names are usually not very
+helpful. For example "MMC-CD", "Red LED Vdd" and "ethernet reset" are
+reasonable line names as they describe what the line is used for. "GPIO0"
+is not a good name to give to a GPIO line. Placeholders are discouraged:
+rather use the "" (blank string) if the use of the GPIO line is undefined
+in your design. The names are assigned starting from line offset 0 from
+left to right from the passed array. An incomplete array (where the number
+of passed named are less than ngpios) will still be used up until the last
+provided valid line index.
+
Example:
gpio-controller@00000000 {
@@ -153,6 +175,10 @@ gpio-controller@00000000 {
gpio-controller;
#gpio-cells = <2>;
ngpios = <18>;
+ gpio-line-names = "MMC-CD", "MMC-WP", "VDD eth", "RST eth", "LED R",
+ "LED G", "LED B", "Col A", "Col B", "Col C", "Col D",
+ "Row A", "Row B", "Row C", "Row D", "NMI button",
+ "poweroff", "reset";
}
The GPIO chip may contain GPIO hog definitions. GPIO hogging is a mechanism