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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpio.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt index 8b69811a9642..18022e249c53 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt @@ -389,11 +389,21 @@ either NULL or the label associated with that GPIO when it was requested. Platform Support ---------------- -To support this framework, a platform's Kconfig will "select HAVE_GPIO_LIB" +To support this framework, a platform's Kconfig will "select" either +ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB or ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB and arrange that its <asm/gpio.h> includes <asm-generic/gpio.h> and defines three functions: gpio_get_value(), gpio_set_value(), and gpio_cansleep(). They may also want to provide a custom value for ARCH_NR_GPIOS. +ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB means that the gpio-lib code will always get compiled +into the kernel on that architecture. + +ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB means the gpio-lib code defaults to off and the user +can enable it and build it into the kernel optionally. + +If neither of these options are selected, the platform does not support +GPIOs through GPIO-lib and the code cannot be enabled by the user. + Trivial implementations of those functions can directly use framework code, which always dispatches through the gpio_chip: |