Some platforms (e.g. OpenFirmware) want to know when a particular chip added or removed, so that the platforms could add their specifics for non-platform devices, like I2C or SPI GPIO chips.
This patch implements the notifier for chip addition and removal events. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avoront...@ru.mvista.com> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/asm-generic/gpio.h | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 350842a..375c03a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/gpio.h> #include <linux/idr.h> +#include <linux/notifier.h> /* Optional implementation infrastructure for GPIO interfaces. @@ -1029,6 +1030,9 @@ static inline void gpiochip_unexport(struct gpio_chip *chip) #endif /* CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS */ +BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(gpio_notifier); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_notifier); + /** * gpiochip_add() - register a gpio_chip * @chip: the chip to register, with chip->base initialized @@ -1103,6 +1107,9 @@ fail: pr_err("gpiochip_add: gpios %d..%d (%s) not registered\n", chip->base, chip->base + chip->ngpio - 1, chip->label ? : "generic"); + else + blocking_notifier_call_chain(&gpio_notifier, + GPIO_NOTIFY_CHIP_ADDED, chip); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_add); @@ -1119,6 +1126,13 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip) int status = 0; unsigned id; + /* Ask external subsystems to release the chip. */ + status = blocking_notifier_call_chain(&gpio_notifier, + GPIO_NOTIFY_CHIP_REMOVE, chip); + status = notifier_to_errno(status); + if (status) + return status; + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); for (id = chip->base; id < chip->base + chip->ngpio; id++) { diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h index 485eeb6..84faae4 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/errno.h> +#include <linux/notifier.h> #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB @@ -208,4 +209,11 @@ static inline void gpio_unexport(unsigned gpio) } #endif /* CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS */ +enum gpio_notify_msg { + GPIO_NOTIFY_CHIP_ADDED = 0, + GPIO_NOTIFY_CHIP_REMOVE = 1, +}; + +extern struct blocking_notifier_head gpio_notifier; + #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_GPIO_H */ -- 1.6.5.7 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev