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| author | Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> | 2008-04-28 23:08:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2008-04-28 23:08:21 +0000 |
| commit | e9f20d6f03e8df393b001dab6dc5226c2a5daf57 (patch) | |
| tree | 73e94fa5e4f83576c97e36187b809c5aad2ade30 /Documentation/gpio.txt | |
| parent | bf62fd887cab230f5952b611bde25e8e15acb454 (diff) | |
| parent | e31a94ed371c70855eb30b77c490d6d85dd4da26 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt index 54630095aa3..c35ca9e40d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt @@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ type of GPIO controller, and on one particular board 80-95 with an FPGA. The numbers need not be contiguous; either of those platforms could also use numbers 2000-2063 to identify GPIOs in a bank of I2C GPIO expanders. +If you want to initialize a structure with an invalid GPIO number, use +some negative number (perhaps "-EINVAL"); that will never be valid. To +test if a number could reference a GPIO, you may use this predicate: + + int gpio_is_valid(int number); + +A number that's not valid will be rejected by calls which may request +or free GPIOs (see below). Other numbers may also be rejected; for +example, a number might be valid but unused on a given board. + Whether a platform supports multiple GPIO controllers is currently a platform-specific implementation issue. |