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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt index 4e16ba4feab..a33628759d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt @@ -75,4 +75,40 @@ Example of two SOC GPIO banks defined as gpio-controller nodes: gpio-controller; }; +2.1) gpio-controller and pinctrl subsystem +------------------------------------------ +gpio-controller on a SOC might be tightly coupled with the pinctrl +subsystem, in the sense that the pins can be used by other functions +together with optional gpio feature. + +While the pin allocation is totally managed by the pin ctrl subsystem, +gpio (under gpiolib) is still maintained by gpio drivers. It may happen +that different pin ranges in a SoC is managed by different gpio drivers. + +This makes it logical to let gpio drivers announce their pin ranges to +the pin ctrl subsystem and call 'pinctrl_request_gpio' in order to +request the corresponding pin before any gpio usage. + +For this, the gpio controller can use a pinctrl phandle and pins to +announce the pinrange to the pin ctrl subsystem. For example, + + qe_pio_e: gpio-controller@1460 { + #gpio-cells = <2>; + compatible = "fsl,qe-pario-bank-e", "fsl,qe-pario-bank"; + reg = <0x1460 0x18>; + gpio-controller; + gpio-ranges = <&pinctrl1 20 10>, <&pinctrl2 50 20>; + + } + +where, + &pinctrl1 and &pinctrl2 is the phandle to the pinctrl DT node. + + Next values specify the base pin and number of pins for the range + handled by 'qe_pio_e' gpio. In the given example from base pin 20 to + pin 29 under pinctrl1 and pin 50 to pin 69 under pinctrl2 is handled + by this gpio controller. + +The pinctrl node must have "#gpio-range-cells" property to show number of +arguments to pass with phandle from gpio controllers node. |