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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst | 7 |
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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 |