From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753880Ab3JAPAq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:00:46 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:5815 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323Ab3JAO7G (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:59:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,1013,1371106800"; d="scan'208";a="412452531" From: Mika Westerberg To: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, Linus Walleij , Grant Likely , Mathias Nyman , Alexandre Courbot , Rob Landley , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mika Westerberg Subject: [PATCH 5/5] gpiolib / ACPI: document the GPIO descriptor based interface Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 17:58:57 +0300 Message-Id: <1380639537-23406-6-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.rc3 In-Reply-To: <1380639537-23406-1-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> References: <1380639537-23406-1-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In addition to the existing ACPI specific GPIO interface, document the new descriptor based GPIO interface in Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt, so it is clear that this new interface is preferred over the ACPI specific version. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg --- Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index aca4e69..48bb9ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -322,3 +322,25 @@ suitable to the gpiolib before passing them. In case of GpioInt resource an additional call to gpio_to_irq() must be done before calling request_irq(). + +Note that the above API is ACPI specific and not recommended for drivers +that need to support non-ACPI systems. The recommended way is to use +the descriptor based GPIO interfaces. The above example looks like this +when converted to the GPIO desc: + + #include + ... + + struct gpio_desc *irq_desc, *power_desc; + + irq_desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, NULL, 1); + if (IS_ERR(irq_desc)) + /* handle error */ + + power_desc = gpiod_get_index(dev, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(power_desc)) + /* handle error */ + + /* Now we can use the GPIO descriptors */ + +See also Documentation/gpio.txt. -- 1.8.4.rc3