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 <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com> --- 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 <linux/gpio/consumer.h> + ... + + 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
