linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds 1a46712aa9 This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6:
Core changes:
 
 - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*. Until now the gpio chips
   were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
   space outside of the device model. We now finally make GPIO chips
   devices. The gpio_chip will create a gpio_device which contains
   a struct device, and this gpio_device struct is kept private.
   Anything that needs to be kept private from the rest of the kernel
   will gradually be moved over to the gpio_device.
 
 - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
   resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
   overhead and reduce code lines. A huge slew of patches convert
   almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.
 
 - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step
   of a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device. We take small
   steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
   "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
   lines on these devices. We can now discover GPIOs properly from
   userspace. We still have not come up with a way to actually *use*
   GPIOs from userspace.
 
 - To encourage people to use the character device for the future,
   we have it always-enabled when using GPIO. The old sysfs ABI is
   still opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as
   deprecated. We will keep it around for the foreseeable future,
   but it will not be extended to cover ever more use cases.
 
 Cleanup:
 
 - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture <asm/gpio.h>
   includes. This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and
   no shared library even existed: just a header file with proper
   prototypes was provided and all semantics were up to the arch to
   implement. These patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper
   device and cleans out leftovers of the old in-kernel API here
   and there. Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.
 
 - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going
   on, but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers
   and the errorpath is sanitized. Some patches for powerpc, blackfin
   and unicore still drop in.
 
 - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
   implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
   lines.
 
 - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.
 
 - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.
 
 New drivers:
 
 - WinSystems WS16C48
 
 - Acces 104-DIO-48E
 
 - F81866 (a F7188x variant)
 
 - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)
 
 - TS-4800
 
 - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected
   to SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.
 
 - Texas Instruments TPIC2810
 
 - Texas Instruments TPS65218
 
 - Texas Instruments TPS65912
 
 - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller
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Merge tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6.  There is quite a
  lot of interesting stuff going on.

  The patches to other subsystems and arch-wide are ACKed as far as
  possible, though I consider things like per-arch <asm/gpio.h> as
  essentially a part of the GPIO subsystem so it should not be needed.

  Core changes:

   - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*.  Until now the gpio chips
     were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
     space outside of the device model.

     We now finally make GPIO chips devices.  The gpio_chip will create
     a gpio_device which contains a struct device, and this gpio_device
     struct is kept private.  Anything that needs to be kept private
     from the rest of the kernel will gradually be moved over to the
     gpio_device.

   - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
     resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
     overhead and reduce code lines.  A huge slew of patches convert
     almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

   - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step of
     a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device.  We take small
     steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
     "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
     lines on these devices.

     We can now discover GPIOs properly from userspace.  We still have
     not come up with a way to actually *use* GPIOs from userspace.

   - To encourage people to use the character device for the future, we
     have it always-enabled when using GPIO.  The old sysfs ABI is still
     opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as deprecated.

     We will keep it around for the foreseeable future, but it will not
     be extended to cover ever more use cases.

  Cleanup:

   - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture <asm/gpio.h>
     includes.

     This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and no shared
     library even existed: just a header file with proper prototypes was
     provided and all semantics were up to the arch to implement.  These
     patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper device and cleans out
     leftovers of the old in-kernel API here and there.

     Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

   - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going on,
     but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers and
     the errorpath is sanitized.  Some patches for powerpc, blackfin and
     unicore still drop in.

   - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
     implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
     lines.

   - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

   - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

  New drivers:

   - WinSystems WS16C48

   - Acces 104-DIO-48E

   - F81866 (a F7188x variant)

   - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

   - TS-4800

   - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected to
     SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

   - Texas Instruments TPIC2810

   - Texas Instruments TPS65218

   - Texas Instruments TPS65912

   - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller"

* tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (194 commits)
  Revert "Share upstreaming patches"
  gpio: mcp23s08: Fix clearing of interrupt.
  gpiolib: Fix comment referring to gpio_*() in gpiod_*()
  gpio: pca953x: Fix pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() on 64-bit
  gpio: xgene: Fix kconfig for standby GIPO contoller
  gpio: Add generic serializer DT binding
  gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major
  gpio: tps65912: fix bad merge
  Revert "gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free"
  gpio: omap: drop dev field from gpio_bank structure
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Slightly update the code for better readability
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Remove *read_reg and *write_reg from struct mpc8xxx_gpio_chip
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Fixup setting gpio direction output
  gpio: mcp23s08: Add support for mcp23s18
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: Fix altr,interrupt-type property
  gpio: add driver for MEN 16Z127 GPIO controller
  gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free
  gpio: timberdale: Switch to devm_ioremap_resource()
  gpio: ts4800: Add IMX51 dependency
  gpiolib: rewrite gpiodev_add_to_list
  ...
2016-03-17 21:05:32 -07:00
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ABI This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6: 2016-03-17 21:05:32 -07:00
accounting Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main() 2015-12-24 07:22:32 -07:00
acpi mfd: core: redo ACPI matching of the children devices 2015-10-26 15:25:53 +01:00
aoe
arm Doc: ARM: Fix a typo in clksrc-change-registers.awk 2016-02-17 14:11:59 -07:00
arm64 arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456 2016-02-26 15:14:27 +00:00
auxdisplay
backlight
blackfin
block A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc 2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
blockdev zram: update documentation 2015-09-24 15:39:42 -06:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 cgroup: rename cgroup documentations 2016-01-11 23:14:51 -05:00
cma
connector
console
cpu-freq Documentation: cpufreq: intel_pstate: fix typo 2016-02-18 20:31:53 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto crypto: doc - Use ahash 2016-02-06 15:33:11 +08:00
development-process
device-mapper dm cache: make the 'mq' policy an alias for 'smq' 2016-03-10 17:12:08 -05:00
devicetree This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6: 2016-03-17 21:05:32 -07:00
dmaengine Merge branch 'topic/async' into for-linus 2016-01-06 15:17:47 +05:30
DocBook USB patches for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-17 14:24:26 -07:00
driver-model This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6: 2016-03-17 21:05:32 -07:00
dvb [media] media: change email address 2016-01-25 12:01:08 -02:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection net: Add support for CHANGEUPPER notifier error injection 2015-12-03 11:49:23 -05:00
fb Documentation/fb: add documentation for sm712fb 2015-08-07 15:05:01 -07:00
features arm64 updates for 4.6: 2016-03-17 20:03:47 -07:00
filesystems Configfs changes for the 4.6 merge window: 2016-03-17 16:25:46 -07:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga usage documentation for FPGA manager core 2015-10-07 18:07:20 +01:00
frv
gpio gpio: documenatation: fix GPIO_LOOKUP{,_IDX} documentation 2016-02-25 16:01:51 +01:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: Create an NSA320 hardware monitoring driver 2016-03-08 18:40:49 -08:00
i2c Doc: i2c: Fix typo in Documentation/i2c 2016-02-10 13:12:14 -07:00
ia64
ide
iio iio: Documentation: Add IIO configfs documentation 2015-12-03 18:19:28 +00:00
infiniband IB: remove in-kernel support for memory windows 2015-12-23 14:29:04 -05:00
input Input: add userio module 2015-10-27 18:55:31 -07:00
ioctl gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major 2016-03-10 16:02:52 +07:00
isdn
ja_JP Doc: ja_JP: Fix a typo in HOWTO 2016-02-10 13:14:37 -07:00
kbuild kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
kdump
ko_KR Documentation/ko_KR: update maintainer information 2016-02-17 14:10:39 -07:00
laptops
leds Documentation: leds: Add description of brightness setting API 2016-01-04 09:57:31 +01:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 16:10:43 -08:00
m68k
memory-devices
metag
mic Char/Misc patches for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-17 13:47:50 -07:00
mips
misc-devices watchdog: mei_wdt: implement MEI iAMT watchdog driver 2016-02-06 22:11:06 -08:00
mmc mmc: core: Remove MMC_CLKGATE 2015-10-26 16:00:09 +01:00
mn10300
mtd Documentation: mtd: improve nand_ecc.txt for readability and correctness 2015-11-17 17:05:14 -08:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation 2016-01-20 18:55:08 -08:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm libnvdimm: documentation clarifications 2015-11-12 09:55:23 -08:00
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: add nvmem api level and how-to doc 2015-08-05 13:43:45 -07:00
parisc
PCI
pcmcia pcmcia: Fix typo in locking documentation 2015-08-07 14:34:58 +02:00
phy
platform
power Merge branches 'pm-pci' and 'pm-core' 2016-01-12 01:10:52 +01:00
powerpc SCSI misc on 20150901 2015-09-02 12:22:54 -07:00
pps Doc: pps: Fix file name in pps.txt 2015-07-14 12:35:42 -06:00
prctl Documentation: Fix int/unsigned int comparison 2016-02-17 14:09:43 -07:00
pti
ptp Another relatively boring cycle for the docs tree: typo fixes, translation 2016-03-17 12:09:35 -07:00
rapidio
RCU documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes 2015-12-05 12:34:32 -08:00
s390 s390/zcore: remove /sys/kernel/debug/zcore/mem 2015-11-27 09:24:12 +01:00
scheduler
scsi st: Fix MTMKPART to work with newer drives 2016-02-23 21:27:02 -05:00
security keys, trusted: seal with a TPM2 authorization policy 2015-12-20 15:27:13 +02:00
serial tty: Remove chars_in_buffer() line discipline method 2016-01-27 15:01:44 -08:00
sh
sound ASoC: img: Add documentation for SPDIF in controls 2015-11-16 10:06:58 +00:00
spi spi: tools: move spidev_test metadata 2015-11-30 12:14:12 +00:00
sysctl TTY/Serial patches for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-17 13:53:25 -07:00
target target: use per-attribute show and store methods 2015-10-13 22:17:49 -07:00
thermal thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit 2016-01-14 13:29:08 -07:00
timers Another relatively boring cycle for the docs tree: typo fixes, translation 2016-03-17 12:09:35 -07:00
tpm
trace x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accesses 2015-12-06 12:56:10 +01:00
usb usb: devio: Add ioctl to disallow detaching kernel USB drivers. 2016-03-05 12:05:01 -08:00
vDSO Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling 2015-06-22 16:04:57 -06:00
video4linux [media] saa7134: Add support for Snazio TvPVR PRO 2016-03-03 09:03:48 -03:00
virtual One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic improvement, 2016-03-16 09:55:35 -07:00
vm mm, page_owner: convert page_owner_inited to static key 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
w1 w1: masters: omap_hdq: add support for 1-wire mode 2015-10-05 04:47:09 +01:00
watchdog Add sun4v_wdt watchdog driver 2016-01-31 11:06:24 -08:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 10:39:22 -07:00
xtensa
zh_CN Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/silicon-errata.txt 2016-02-17 14:08:07 -07:00
00-INDEX
adding-syscalls.txt Documentation: describe how to add a system call 2015-08-13 17:54:06 -06:00
applying-patches.txt
assoc_array.txt
atomic_ops.txt locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h 2015-09-13 10:35:46 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt Merge branch 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-02-10 11:36:19 -08:00
Changes There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and 2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt clk: change clk_ops' ->determine_rate() prototype 2015-07-27 18:12:01 -07:00
coccinelle.txt
CodeOfConflict
CodingStyle Documentation/CodingStyle: add space before parenthesis in example macro 2016-01-25 12:36:28 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions 2015-12-10 11:35:30 -07:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt 2016-01-11 18:29:00 -07:00
DMA-attributes.txt
dma-buf-sharing.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dontdiff Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff 2015-11-11 10:08:07 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt EDAC: Remove references to bluesmoke.sourceforge.net 2015-11-26 14:46:06 +01:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to 2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: Howto: Fixed subtitles style 2016-03-09 15:30:03 -07:00
hsi.txt
hw_random.txt hwrng: doc - Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng 2015-09-21 22:00:41 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt iommu/vt-d: Fix link to Intel IOMMU Specification 2016-01-29 12:32:12 +01:00
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi watchdog : add panic_wdt_timeout parameter 2015-11-16 06:28:43 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Documentation updates 2015-10-13 19:01:25 +02:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kasan.txt mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt Documenation: Update location of docproc.c 2015-07-14 12:36:39 -06:00
kernel-docs.txt Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link 2016-01-11 18:26:58 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt USB patches for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-17 14:24:26 -07:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt irq_poll: make blk-iopoll available outside the block layer 2015-12-11 11:52:24 -08:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https 2015-06-22 10:14:05 -06:00
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
kselftest.txt Documentation: kselftest: Remove duplicate word 2016-03-09 15:33:38 -07:00
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt
magic-number.txt
mailbox.txt Documentation: minor typo fix in mailbox.txt 2015-08-13 18:03:18 -06:00
Makefile spi: Move spi code from Documentation to tools 2015-11-23 14:54:01 +00:00
ManagementStyle
md-cluster.txt md-cluster: update the documentation 2016-01-06 11:39:06 +11:00
md.txt doc:md: fix typo in md.txt. 2015-06-23 06:49:44 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt virtio: barrier rework+fixes 2016-01-18 16:44:24 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt Documentation: Minor changes to men-chameleon-bus.txt 2015-07-24 15:15:17 +02:00
module-signing.txt modsign: Fix documentation on module signing enforcement parameter. 2016-03-12 01:48:11 -07:00
mono.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt NTB: Rename Intel code names to platform names 2015-07-04 14:09:25 -04:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt mm, printk: introduce new format string for flags 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
pwm.txt
ramoops.txt
rbtree.txt documentation: fix small typo in rbtree.txt 2015-09-13 14:38:50 -06:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc: introduce rproc_get_by_phandle API 2015-06-16 21:12:52 +03:00
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt rtc: implement a sysfs interface for clock offset 2016-03-14 17:08:16 +01:00
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
sparse.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt stable_kernel_rules.txt: Remove extra space after Cc: 2015-11-20 16:54:57 -07:00
static-keys.txt locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation 2015-09-15 07:12:06 +02:00
SubmitChecklist
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches SubmittingPatches: fix spelling of "git send-email" 2016-01-25 12:30:18 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt mm, oom: do not panic for oom kills triggered from sysrq 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.txt
ubsan.txt UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt Documentation: mention vme_master_mmap() in VME API 2015-06-12 17:26:56 -07:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt