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diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt index e08a883de36..77a1d11af72 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt @@ -439,6 +439,48 @@ slower clock delays the rising edge of SCK, and the I2C master adjusts its signaling rate accordingly. +GPIO controllers and the pinctrl subsystem +------------------------------------------ + +A GPIO controller on a SOC might be tightly coupled with the pinctrl +subsystem, in the sense that the pins can be used by other functions +together with an optional gpio feature. We have already covered the +case where e.g. a GPIO controller need to reserve a pin or set the +direction of a pin by calling any of: + +pinctrl_request_gpio() +pinctrl_free_gpio() +pinctrl_gpio_direction_input() +pinctrl_gpio_direction_output() + +But how does the pin control subsystem cross-correlate the GPIO +numbers (which are a global business) to a certain pin on a certain +pin controller? + +This is done by registering "ranges" of pins, which are essentially +cross-reference tables. These are described in +Documentation/pinctrl.txt + +While the pin allocation is totally managed by the pinctrl subsystem, +gpio (under gpiolib) is still maintained by gpio drivers. It may happen +that different pin ranges in a SoC is managed by different gpio drivers. + +This makes it logical to let gpio drivers announce their pin ranges to +the pin ctrl subsystem before it will call 'pinctrl_request_gpio' in order +to request the corresponding pin to be prepared by the pinctrl subsystem +before any gpio usage. + +For this, the gpio controller can register its pin range with pinctrl +subsystem. There are two ways of doing it currently: with or without DT. + +For with DT support refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt. + +For non-DT support, user can call gpiochip_add_pin_range() with appropriate +parameters to register a range of gpio pins with a pinctrl driver. For this +exact name string of pinctrl device has to be passed as one of the +argument to this routine. + + What do these conventions omit? =============================== One of the biggest things these conventions omit is pin multiplexing, since |