Hello, This series exposes a "reset tolerant" property for GPIOs. For example, the controller implemented in Aspeed BMCs provides such a feature to allow the BMC to be reset whilst maintaining necessary state to keep host systems alive or status LEDs in-tact.
I'm sending it as an RFC because I'm not sure using pinconf is the right way to go about it, or that expanding the sysfs interface is a good idea, or that the approach taken is right in the context of the existing suspend support. pinconf just ended up being a convenient abstraction whilst supporting the sysfs change, and didn't feel unreasonable to use for devicetree or the chardev interface either. My concern with using pinconf is that the reset-tolerant property is (currently) GPIO-centric, but maybe that's not a worry. So the patches in the series support configuring the property via devicetree, the chardev interface and the sysfs interface. The sysfs interface also exposes the ability to configure the suspend tolerance, though there are some ordering requirements with respect to setting the direction (the suspend tolerance will only take if configured before setting the pin direction on the Arizona controller). Please review! Cheers, Andrew Andrew Jeffery (5): gpio: gpiolib: Add core support for maintaining GPIO values on reset gpio: gpiolib: Add OF support for maintaining GPIO values on reset gpio: gpiolib: Add chardev support for maintaining GPIO values on reset gpio: gpiolib: Add sysfs support for maintaining GPIO values on reset gpio: aspeed: Add support for reset tolerance Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt | 9 ++++ drivers/gpio/gpio-arizona.c | 4 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c | 39 ++++++++++++++- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 2 + drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 1 + include/dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h | 4 ++ include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 9 ++++ include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 5 +- include/linux/gpio/machine.h | 2 + include/linux/of_gpio.h | 1 + include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/gpio.h | 11 +++-- 14 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0