On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:18:29PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> 
> This updates the GPIO range documentation with the API changes
> for sparse/random/arbitrary pin-to-GPIO mappings.

Oops, sorry, I should have thought of updating this with my previous
patch. Thanks for stepping in.

Reviewed-by: Christian Ruppert <[email protected]>

> Cc: Christian Ruppert <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/pinctrl.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
> index f6e664b..4548743 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
> @@ -350,6 +350,23 @@ chip b:
>   - GPIO range : [48 .. 55]
>   - pin range  : [64 .. 71]
>  
> +The above examples assume the mapping between the GPIOs and pins is
> +linear. If the mapping is sparse or haphazard, an array of arbitrary pin
> +numbers can be encoded in the range like this:
> +
> +static const unsigned range_pins[] = { 14, 1, 22, 17, 10, 8, 6, 2 };
> +
> +static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range = {
> +     .name = "chip",
> +     .id = 0,
> +     .base = 32,
> +     .pins = &range_pins,
> +     .npins = ARRAY_SIZE(range_pins),
> +     .gc = &chip;
> +};
> +
> +In this case the pin_base property will be ignored.
> +
>  When GPIO-specific functions in the pin control subsystem are called, these
>  ranges will be used to look up the appropriate pin controller by inspecting
>  and matching the pin to the pin ranges across all controllers. When a
> @@ -357,9 +374,9 @@ pin controller handling the matching range is found, 
> GPIO-specific functions
>  will be called on that specific pin controller.
>  
>  For all functionalities dealing with pin biasing, pin muxing etc, the pin
> -controller subsystem will subtract the range's .base offset from the passed
> -in gpio number, and add the ranges's .pin_base offset to retrive a pin 
> number.
> -After that, the subsystem passes it on to the pin control driver, so the 
> driver
> +controller subsystem will look up the corresponding pin number from the 
> passed
> +in gpio number, and use the ranges internals to retrive a pin number. After
> +that, the subsystem passes it on to the pin control driver, so the driver
>  will get an pin number into its handled number range. Further it is also 
> passed
>  the range ID value, so that the pin controller knows which range it should
>  deal with.
> @@ -368,6 +385,7 @@ Calling pinctrl_add_gpio_range from pinctrl driver is 
> DEPRECATED. Please see
>  section 2.1 of Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt on how to bind
>  pinctrl and gpio drivers.
>  
> +
>  PINMUX interfaces
>  =================
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.11.3
> 

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