linux/Documentation/devicetree
Shiraz Hashim f23f1516b6 gpiolib: provide provision to register pin ranges
pinctrl subsystem needs gpio chip base to prepare set of gpio
pin ranges, which a given pinctrl driver can handle. This is
important to handle pinctrl gpio request calls in order to
program a given pin properly for gpio operation.

As gpio base is allocated dynamically during gpiochip
registration, presently there exists no clean way to pass this
information to the pinctrl subsystem.

After few discussions from [1], it was concluded that may be
gpio controller reporting the pin range it supports, is a
better way than pinctrl subsystem directly registering it.

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/184816

Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
[Edited documentation a bit]
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2012-11-11 19:06:00 +01:00
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bindings gpiolib: provide provision to register pin ranges 2012-11-11 19:06:00 +01:00
00-INDEX Documentation: add devicetree docs index file 2011-03-16 10:47:03 -07:00
booting-without-of.txt dt/documentation: Fix value format description 2012-05-19 15:03:28 -06:00
usage-model.txt usage-model.txt: fix typo machine_init->init_machine 2012-07-06 07:16:33 -05:00