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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-05 12:39:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-05 12:39:29 -0700
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Merge tag 'gpio-updates-for-v5.13-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux
Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski: - new driver for the Realtek Otto GPIO controller - ACPI support for gpio-mpc8xxx - edge event support for gpio-sch (+ Kconfig fixes) - Kconfig improvements in gpio-ich - fixes to older issues in gpio-mockup - ACPI quirk for ignoring EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055 - improve the GPIO aggregator code by using more generic interfaces instead of reimplementing them in the driver - convert the DT bindings for gpio-74x164 to yaml - documentation improvements - a slew of other minor fixes and improvements to GPIO drivers * tag 'gpio-updates-for-v5.13-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (34 commits) dt-bindings: gpio: add YAML description for rockchip,gpio-bank gpio: mxs: remove useless function dt-bindings: gpio: fairchild,74hc595: Convert to json-schema gpio: it87: remove unused code gpio: 104-dio-48e: Fix coding style issues gpio: mpc8xxx: Add ACPI support gpio: ich: Switch to be dependent on LPC_ICH gpio: sch: Drop MFD_CORE selection gpio: sch: depends on LPC_SCH gpiolib: acpi: Add quirk to ignore EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055 gpio: sch: Hook into ACPI GPE handler to catch GPIO edge events gpio: sch: Add edge event support gpio: aggregator: Replace custom get_arg() with a generic next_arg() lib/cmdline: Export next_arg() for being used in modules gpio: omap: Use device_get_match_data() helper gpio: Add Realtek Otto GPIO support dt-bindings: gpio: Binding for Realtek Otto GPIO docs: kernel-parameters: Add gpio_mockup_named_lines docs: kernel-parameters: Move gpio-mockup for alphabetic order lib: bitmap: provide devm_bitmap_alloc() and devm_bitmap_zalloc() ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst
index a77c24c27f7b9..8214e215a8bf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ irq_domain usage
================
An interrupt controller driver creates and registers an irq_domain by
-calling one of the irq_domain_add_*() functions (each mapping method
-has a different allocator function, more on that later). The function
-will return a pointer to the irq_domain on success. The caller must
-provide the allocator function with an irq_domain_ops structure.
+calling one of the irq_domain_add_*() or irq_domain_create_*() functions
+(each mapping method has a different allocator function, more on that later).
+The function will return a pointer to the irq_domain on success. The caller
+must provide the allocator function with an irq_domain_ops structure.
In most cases, the irq_domain will begin empty without any mappings
between hwirq and IRQ numbers. Mappings are added to the irq_domain
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Legacy
irq_domain_add_simple()
irq_domain_add_legacy()
irq_domain_add_legacy_isa()
+ irq_domain_create_simple()
irq_domain_create_legacy()
The Legacy mapping is a special case for drivers that already have a
@@ -169,13 +170,13 @@ supported. For example, ISA controllers would use the legacy map for
mapping Linux IRQs 0-15 so that existing ISA drivers get the correct IRQ
numbers.
-Most users of legacy mappings should use irq_domain_add_simple() which
-will use a legacy domain only if an IRQ range is supplied by the
-system and will otherwise use a linear domain mapping. The semantics
-of this call are such that if an IRQ range is specified then
+Most users of legacy mappings should use irq_domain_add_simple() or
+irq_domain_create_simple() which will use a legacy domain only if an IRQ range
+is supplied by the system and will otherwise use a linear domain mapping.
+The semantics of this call are such that if an IRQ range is specified then
descriptors will be allocated on-the-fly for it, and if no range is
-specified it will fall through to irq_domain_add_linear() which means
-*no* irq descriptors will be allocated.
+specified it will fall through to irq_domain_add_linear() or
+irq_domain_create_linear() which means *no* irq descriptors will be allocated.
A typical use case for simple domains is where an irqchip provider
is supporting both dynamic and static IRQ assignments.
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ that the driver using the simple domain call irq_create_mapping()
before any irq_find_mapping() since the latter will actually work
for the static IRQ assignment case.
+irq_domain_add_simple() and irq_domain_create_simple() as well as
irq_domain_add_legacy() and irq_domain_create_legacy() are functionally
equivalent, except for the first argument is different - the former
accepts an Open Firmware specific 'struct device_node', while the latter