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>
The device tree is used by more than just PowerPC. Make the documentation
directory available to all.
v2: reorganized files while moving to create arch and driver specific
directories.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Shiraz Hashim