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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:25:48 +0900 From: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com> To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: fix typo and unclear legacy API section The "Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem" of the documentation was unclear at best, and even included a sentence that seems to say the opposite of what it should say about the lifetime of the return value of the conversion functions. Try to clarify things a bit and hopefully make that section more readable. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com> --- Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst index 423492d125b9..173e4c7b037d 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst @@ -440,18 +440,20 @@ For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem ========================================== -Many kernel subsystems still handle GPIOs using the legacy integer-based -interface. Although it is strongly encouraged to upgrade them to the safer -descriptor-based API, the following two functions allow you to convert a GPIO -descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace and vice-versa:: +Many kernel subsystems and drivers still handle GPIOs using the legacy +integer-based interface. It is strongly recommended to update these to the new +gpiod interface. For cases where both interfaces need to be used, the following +two functions allow to convert a GPIO descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace +and vice-versa:: int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc) struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio) -The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can be safely used as long as the -GPIO descriptor has not been freed. All the same, a GPIO number passed to -gpio_to_desc() must have been properly acquired, and usage of the returned GPIO -descriptor is only possible after the GPIO number has been released. +The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can safely be used as a parameter of +the gpio\_*() functions for as long as the GPIO descriptor `desc` is not freed. +All the same, a GPIO number passed to gpio_to_desc() must first be properly +acquired using e.g. gpio_request_one(), and the returned GPIO descriptor is only +considered valid until that GPIO number is released using gpio_free(). Freeing a GPIO obtained by one API with the other API is forbidden and an unchecked error. -- 2.29.2
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