diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst index 0afd95a12b10..cf992e5ab976 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst @@ -388,6 +388,14 @@ array_info should be set to NULL. Note that for optimal performance GPIOs belonging to the same chip should be contiguous within the array of descriptors. +Still better performance may be achieved if array indexes of the descriptors +match hardware pin numbers of a single chip. If an array passed to a get/set +array function matches the one obtained from gpiod_get_array() and array_info +associated with the array is also passed, the function may take a fast bitmap +processing path, passing the value_bitmap argument directly to the respective +.get/set_multiple() callback of the chip. That allows for utilization of GPIO +banks as data I/O ports without much loss of performance. + The return value of gpiod_get_array_value() and its variants is 0 on success or negative on error. Note the difference to gpiod_get_value(), which returns 0 or 1 on success to convey the GPIO value. With the array functions, the GPIO |