gpio: Add gpio-charger to the documentation

The GPIO-based charger is another of the helpful devices built
on top of GPIO.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200620201248.28843-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
index 820b403d50f6..41ec3cc72d32 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ hardware descriptions such as device tree or ACPI:
   Consumer Electronics Control bus using only GPIO. It is used to communicate
   with devices on the HDMI bus.
 
+- gpio-charger: drivers/power/supply/gpio-charger.c is used if you need to do
+  battery charging and all you have to go by to check the presence of the
+  AC charger or more complex tasks such as indicating charging status using
+  nothing but GPIO lines, this driver provides that and also a clearly defined
+  way to pass the charging parameters from hardware descriptions such as the
+  device tree.
+
 Apart from this there are special GPIO drivers in subsystems like MMC/SD to
 read card detect and write protect GPIO lines, and in the TTY serial subsystem
 to emulate MCTRL (modem control) signals CTS/RTS by using two GPIO lines. The