[PATCH] GPIO core
authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:53:11 +0000 (00:53 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:34 +0000 (09:48 -0800)
commit4c20386c8d0719b42503efe65abe47ad3fb3d711
tree9ec169c4c8548a9c2ac5c258c15020c346b969e1
parent9794f33ddedd878dd92fcf8b4834391840366919
[PATCH] GPIO core

This defines a simple and minimalist programming interface for GPIO APIs:

  - Documentation/gpio.txt ... describes things (read it)

  - include/asm-arm/gpio.h ... defines the ARM hook, which just punts
    to <asm/arch/gpio.h> for any implementation

  - include/asm-generic/gpio.h ... implement "can sleep" variants as calling
    the normal ones, for systems that don't handle i2c expanders.

The immediate need for such a cross-architecture API convention is to support
drivers that work the same on AT91 ARM and AVR32 AP7000 chips, which embed many
of the same controllers but have different CPUs.  However, several other users
have been reported, including a driver for a hardware watchdog chip and some
handhelds.org multi-CPU button drivers.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/gpio.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
include/asm-arm/gpio.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/asm-generic/gpio.h [new file with mode: 0644]