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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst index 1cc5567a4bbe..f5135a14ef2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst @@ -50,8 +50,11 @@ the number of lines exposed by this bank. **Attribute:** ``/config/gpio-sim/gpio-device/gpio-bankX/lineY/name`` -This group represents a single line at the offset Y. The 'name' attribute -allows to set the line name as represented by the 'gpio-line-names' property. +**Attribute:** ``/config/gpio-sim/gpio-device/gpio-bankX/lineY/valid`` + +This group represents a single line at the offset Y. The ``valid`` attribute +indicates whether the line can be used as GPIO. The ``name`` attribute allows +to set the line name as represented by the 'gpio-line-names' property. **Item:** ``/config/gpio-sim/gpio-device/gpio-bankX/lineY/hog`` @@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ specific lines. The name of those subdirectories must take the form of: ``'line<offset>'`` (e.g. ``'line0'``, ``'line20'``, etc.) as the name will be used by the module to assign the config to the specific line at given offset. -Once the confiuration is complete, the ``'live'`` attribute must be set to 1 in +Once the configuration is complete, the ``'live'`` attribute must be set to 1 in order to instantiate the chip. It can be set back to 0 to destroy the simulated chip. The module will synchronously wait for the new simulated device to be successfully probed and if this doesn't happen, writing to ``'live'`` will |