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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/gpio')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst index 22271c342d92..3366a991b4aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Guidelines for GPIOs consumers Drivers that can't work without standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries that depend on GPIOLIB or select GPIOLIB. The functions that allow a driver to -obtain and use GPIOs are available by including the following file: +obtain and use GPIOs are available by including the following file:: #include <linux/gpio/consumer.h> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst index 41ec3cc72d32..af632d764ac6 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst @@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ hardware descriptions such as device tree or ACPI: way to pass the charging parameters from hardware descriptions such as the device tree. +- gpio-mux: drivers/mux/gpio.c is used for controlling a multiplexer using + n GPIO lines such that you can mux in 2^n different devices by activating + different GPIO lines. Often the GPIOs are on a SoC and the devices are + some SoC-external entities, such as different components on a PCB that + can be selectively enabled. + Apart from this there are special GPIO drivers in subsystems like MMC/SD to read card detect and write protect GPIO lines, and in the TTY serial subsystem to emulate MCTRL (modem control) signals CTS/RTS by using two GPIO lines. The |