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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2016-02-12 14:48:23 +0100
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2016-02-19 09:48:41 +0100
commitdf4878e969ccc047da45d2cd3af5d08031da1593 (patch)
tree2677387492b60fd5c6a42a317bde0e7e965aa8fa /drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
parentgpio: tps65218: remove unused #include (diff)
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gpio: store reflect the label to userspace
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. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
index ddbe409ad48f..e30e5fdb1214 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct acpi_device;
* of the @descs array.
* @base: GPIO base in the DEPRECATED global Linux GPIO numberspace, assigned
* at device creation time.
+ * @label: a descriptive name for the GPIO device, such as the part number
+ * or name of the IP component in a System on Chip.
* @data: per-instance data assigned by the driver
* @list: links gpio_device:s together for traversal
*
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ struct gpio_device {
struct gpio_desc *descs;
int base;
u16 ngpio;
+ char *label;
void *data;
struct list_head list;