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+=============
+GPIO Mappings
+=============
+
+This document explains how GPIOs can be assigned to given devices and functions.
+
+Note that it only applies to the new descriptor-based interface. For a
+description of the deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to
+legacy.rst (actually, there is no real mapping possible with the old
+interface; you just fetch an integer from somewhere and request the
+corresponding GPIO).
+
+All platforms can enable the GPIO library, but if the platform strictly
+requires GPIO functionality to be present, it needs to select GPIOLIB from its
+Kconfig. Then, how GPIOs are mapped depends on what the platform uses to
+describe its hardware layout. Currently, mappings can be defined through device
+tree, ACPI, and platform data.
+
+Device Tree
+-----------
+GPIOs can easily be mapped to devices and functions in the device tree. The
+exact way to do it depends on the GPIO controller providing the GPIOs, see the
+device tree bindings for your controller.
+
+GPIOs mappings are defined in the consumer device's node, in a property named
+<function>-gpios, where <function> is the function the driver will request
+through gpiod_get(). For example::
+
+	foo_device {
+		compatible = "acme,foo";
+		...
+		led-gpios = <&gpio 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>, /* red */
+			    <&gpio 16 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>, /* green */
+			    <&gpio 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /* blue */
+
+		power-gpios = <&gpio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+	};
+
+Properties named <function>-gpio are also considered valid and old bindings use
+it but are only supported for compatibility reasons and should not be used for
+newer bindings since it has been deprecated.
+
+This property will make GPIOs 15, 16 and 17 available to the driver under the
+"led" function, and GPIO 1 as the "power" GPIO::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *red, *green, *blue, *power;
+
+	red = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 0, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+	green = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 1, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+	blue = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 2, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+
+	power = gpiod_get(dev, "power", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+
+The led GPIOs will be active high, while the power GPIO will be active low (i.e.
+gpiod_is_active_low(power) will be true).
+
+The second parameter of the gpiod_get() functions, the con_id string, has to be
+the <function>-prefix of the GPIO suffixes ("gpios" or "gpio", automatically
+looked up by the gpiod functions internally) used in the device tree. With above
+"led-gpios" example, use the prefix without the "-" as con_id parameter: "led".
+
+Internally, the GPIO subsystem prefixes the GPIO suffix ("gpios" or "gpio")
+with the string passed in con_id to get the resulting string
+(``snprintf(... "%s-%s", con_id, gpio_suffixes[]``).
+
+ACPI
+----
+ACPI also supports function names for GPIOs in a similar fashion to DT.
+The above DT example can be converted to an equivalent ACPI description
+with the help of _DSD (Device Specific Data), introduced in ACPI 5.1::
+
+	Device (FOO) {
+		Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () {
+			GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
+				"\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 15 } // red
+			GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
+				"\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 16 } // green
+			GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
+				"\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 17 } // blue
+			GpioIo (Exclusive, PullNone, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
+				"\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 1 } // power
+		})
+
+		Name (_DSD, Package () {
+			ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
+			Package () {
+				Package () {
+					"led-gpios",
+					Package () {
+						^FOO, 0, 0, 1,
+						^FOO, 1, 0, 1,
+						^FOO, 2, 0, 1,
+					}
+				},
+				Package () { "power-gpios", Package () { ^FOO, 3, 0, 0 } },
+			}
+		})
+	}
+
+For more information about the ACPI GPIO bindings see
+Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst.
+
+Platform Data
+-------------
+Finally, GPIOs can be bound to devices and functions using platform data. Board
+files that desire to do so need to include the following header::
+
+	#include <linux/gpio/machine.h>
+
+GPIOs are mapped by the means of tables of lookups, containing instances of the
+gpiod_lookup structure. Two macros are defined to help declaring such mappings::
+
+	GPIO_LOOKUP(key, chip_hwnum, con_id, flags)
+	GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX(key, chip_hwnum, con_id, idx, flags)
+
+where
+
+  - key is either the label of the gpiod_chip instance providing the GPIO, or
+    the GPIO line name
+  - chip_hwnum is the hardware number of the GPIO within the chip, or U16_MAX
+    to indicate that key is a GPIO line name
+  - con_id is the name of the GPIO function from the device point of view. It
+	can be NULL, in which case it will match any function.
+  - idx is the index of the GPIO within the function.
+  - flags is defined to specify the following properties:
+	* GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH	- GPIO line is active high
+	* GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW	- GPIO line is active low
+	* GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN	- GPIO line is set up as open drain
+	* GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE	- GPIO line is set up as open source
+	* GPIO_PERSISTENT	- GPIO line is persistent during
+				  suspend/resume and maintains its value
+	* GPIO_TRANSITORY	- GPIO line is transitory and may loose its
+				  electrical state during suspend/resume
+
+In the future, these flags might be extended to support more properties.
+
+Note that:
+  1. GPIO line names are not guaranteed to be globally unique, so the first
+     match found will be used.
+  2. GPIO_LOOKUP() is just a shortcut to GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX() where idx = 0.
+
+A lookup table can then be defined as follows, with an empty entry defining its
+end. The 'dev_id' field of the table is the identifier of the device that will
+make use of these GPIOs. It can be NULL, in which case it will be matched for
+calls to gpiod_get() with a NULL device.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+        struct gpiod_lookup_table gpios_table = {
+                .dev_id = "foo.0",
+                .table = {
+                        GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 15, "led", 0, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH),
+                        GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 16, "led", 1, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH),
+                        GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 17, "led", 2, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH),
+                        GPIO_LOOKUP("gpio.0", 1, "power", GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW),
+                        { },
+                },
+        };
+
+And the table can be added by the board code as follows::
+
+	gpiod_add_lookup_table(&gpios_table);
+
+The driver controlling "foo.0" will then be able to obtain its GPIOs as follows::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *red, *green, *blue, *power;
+
+	red = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 0, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+	green = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 1, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+	blue = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 2, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+
+	power = gpiod_get(dev, "power", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
+
+Since the "led" GPIOs are mapped as active-high, this example will switch their
+signals to 1, i.e. enabling the LEDs. And for the "power" GPIO, which is mapped
+as active-low, its actual signal will be 0 after this code. Contrary to the
+legacy integer GPIO interface, the active-low property is handled during
+mapping and is thus transparent to GPIO consumers.
+
+A set of functions such as gpiod_set_value() is available to work with
+the new descriptor-oriented interface.
+
+Boards using platform data can also hog GPIO lines by defining GPIO hog tables.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+        struct gpiod_hog gpio_hog_table[] = {
+                GPIO_HOG("gpio.0", 10, "foo", GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH),
+                { }
+        };
+
+And the table can be added to the board code as follows::
+
+        gpiod_add_hogs(gpio_hog_table);
+
+The line will be hogged as soon as the gpiochip is created or - in case the
+chip was created earlier - when the hog table is registered.
+
+Arrays of pins
+--------------
+In addition to requesting pins belonging to a function one by one, a device may
+also request an array of pins assigned to the function.  The way those pins are
+mapped to the device determines if the array qualifies for fast bitmap
+processing.  If yes, a bitmap is passed over get/set array functions directly
+between a caller and a respective .get/set_multiple() callback of a GPIO chip.
+
+In order to qualify for fast bitmap processing, the array must meet the
+following requirements:
+
+- pin hardware number of array member 0 must also be 0,
+- pin hardware numbers of consecutive array members which belong to the same
+  chip as member 0 does must also match their array indexes.
+
+Otherwise fast bitmap processing path is not used in order to avoid consecutive
+pins which belong to the same chip but are not in hardware order being processed
+separately.
+
+If the array applies for fast bitmap processing path, pins which belong to
+different chips than member 0 does, as well as those with indexes different from
+their hardware pin numbers, are excluded from the fast path, both input and
+output.  Moreover, open drain and open source pins are excluded from fast bitmap
+output processing.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst
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+===================================================================
+A driver for a selfmade cheap BT8xx based PCI GPIO-card (bt8xxgpio)
+===================================================================
+
+For advanced documentation, see https://bues.ch/cms/unmaintained/btgpio.html
+
+A generic digital 24-port PCI GPIO card can be built out of an ordinary
+Brooktree bt848, bt849, bt878 or bt879 based analog TV tuner card. The
+Brooktree chip is used in old analog Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards. You can easily
+find them used for low prices on the net.
+
+The bt8xx chip does have 24 digital GPIO ports.
+These ports are accessible via 24 pins on the SMD chip package.
+
+
+How to physically access the GPIO pins
+======================================
+
+The are several ways to access these pins. One might unsolder the whole chip
+and put it on a custom PCI board, or one might only unsolder each individual
+GPIO pin and solder that to some tiny wire. As the chip package really is tiny
+there are some advanced soldering skills needed in any case.
+
+The physical pinouts are drawn in the following ASCII art.
+The GPIO pins are marked with G00-G23::
+
+                                           G G G G G G G G G G G G     G G G G G G
+                                           0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1     1 1 1 1 1 1
+                                           0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     2 3 4 5 6 7
+           | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+           ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+         --|                               ^                                     ^   |--
+         --|                               pin 86                           pin 67   |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                               pin 61 >  |-- G18
+         --|                                                                         |-- G19
+         --|                                                                         |-- G20
+         --|                                                                         |-- G21
+         --|                                                                         |-- G22
+         --|                                                               pin 56 >  |-- G23
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                           Brooktree 878/879                             |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+         --|   O                                                                     |--
+         --|                                                                         |--
+           ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+           | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+           ^
+           This is pin 1
+
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
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+==================================
+GPIO Descriptor Consumer Interface
+==================================
+
+This document describes the consumer interface of the GPIO framework. Note that
+it describes the new descriptor-based interface. For a description of the
+deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to legacy.rst.
+
+
+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::
+
+	#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
+
+There are static inline stubs for all functions in the header file in the case
+where GPIOLIB is disabled. When these stubs are called they will emit
+warnings. These stubs are used for two use cases:
+
+- Simple compile coverage with e.g. COMPILE_TEST - it does not matter that
+  the current platform does not enable or select GPIOLIB because we are not
+  going to execute the system anyway.
+
+- Truly optional GPIOLIB support - where the driver does not really make use
+  of the GPIOs on certain compile-time configurations for certain systems, but
+  will use it under other compile-time configurations. In this case the
+  consumer must make sure not to call into these functions, or the user will
+  be met with console warnings that may be perceived as intimidating.
+
+All the functions that work with the descriptor-based GPIO interface are
+prefixed with ``gpiod_``. The ``gpio_`` prefix is used for the legacy
+interface. No other function in the kernel should use these prefixes. The use
+of the legacy functions is strongly discouraged, new code should use
+<linux/gpio/consumer.h> and descriptors exclusively.
+
+
+Obtaining and Disposing GPIOs
+=============================
+
+With the descriptor-based interface, GPIOs are identified with an opaque,
+non-forgeable handler that must be obtained through a call to one of the
+gpiod_get() functions. Like many other kernel subsystems, gpiod_get() takes the
+device that will use the GPIO and the function the requested GPIO is supposed to
+fulfill::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
+				    enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+If a function is implemented by using several GPIOs together (e.g. a simple LED
+device that displays digits), an additional index argument can be specified::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev,
+					  const char *con_id, unsigned int idx,
+					  enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+For a more detailed description of the con_id parameter in the DeviceTree case
+see Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst
+
+The flags parameter is used to optionally specify a direction and initial value
+for the GPIO. Values can be:
+
+* GPIOD_ASIS or 0 to not initialize the GPIO at all. The direction must be set
+  later with one of the dedicated functions.
+* GPIOD_IN to initialize the GPIO as input.
+* GPIOD_OUT_LOW to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 0.
+* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 1.
+* GPIOD_OUT_LOW_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_LOW but also enforce the line
+  to be electrically used with open drain.
+* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_HIGH but also enforce the line
+  to be electrically used with open drain.
+
+Note that the initial value is *logical* and the physical line level depends on
+whether the line is configured active high or active low (see
+:ref:`active_low_semantics`).
+
+The two last flags are used for use cases where open drain is mandatory, such
+as I2C: if the line is not already configured as open drain in the mappings
+(see board.rst), then open drain will be enforced anyway and a warning will be
+printed that the board configuration needs to be updated to match the use case.
+
+Both functions return either a valid GPIO descriptor, or an error code checkable
+with IS_ERR() (they will never return a NULL pointer). -ENOENT will be returned
+if and only if no GPIO has been assigned to the device/function/index triplet,
+other error codes are used for cases where a GPIO has been assigned but an error
+occurred while trying to acquire it. This is useful to discriminate between mere
+errors and an absence of GPIO for optional GPIO parameters. For the common
+pattern where a GPIO is optional, the gpiod_get_optional() and
+gpiod_get_index_optional() functions can be used. These functions return NULL
+instead of -ENOENT if no GPIO has been assigned to the requested function::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev,
+					     const char *con_id,
+					     enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev,
+						   const char *con_id,
+						   unsigned int index,
+						   enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+Note that gpio_get*_optional() functions (and their managed variants), unlike
+the rest of gpiolib API, also return NULL when gpiolib support is disabled.
+This is helpful to driver authors, since they do not need to special case
+-ENOSYS return codes.  System integrators should however be careful to enable
+gpiolib on systems that need it.
+
+For a function using multiple GPIOs all of those can be obtained with one call::
+
+	struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev,
+					   const char *con_id,
+					   enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+This function returns a struct gpio_descs which contains an array of
+descriptors.  It also contains a pointer to a gpiolib private structure which,
+if passed back to get/set array functions, may speed up I/O processing::
+
+	struct gpio_descs {
+		struct gpio_array *info;
+		unsigned int ndescs;
+		struct gpio_desc *desc[];
+	}
+
+The following function returns NULL instead of -ENOENT if no GPIOs have been
+assigned to the requested function::
+
+	struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev,
+						    const char *con_id,
+						    enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+Device-managed variants of these functions are also defined::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
+					 enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev,
+					       const char *con_id,
+					       unsigned int idx,
+					       enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev,
+						  const char *con_id,
+						  enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev,
+							const char *con_id,
+							unsigned int index,
+							enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev,
+						const char *con_id,
+						enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev,
+							 const char *con_id,
+							 enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+A GPIO descriptor can be disposed of using the gpiod_put() function::
+
+	void gpiod_put(struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+For an array of GPIOs this function can be used::
+
+	void gpiod_put_array(struct gpio_descs *descs)
+
+It is strictly forbidden to use a descriptor after calling these functions.
+It is also not allowed to individually release descriptors (using gpiod_put())
+from an array acquired with gpiod_get_array().
+
+The device-managed variants are, unsurprisingly::
+
+	void devm_gpiod_put(struct device *dev, struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+	void devm_gpiod_put_array(struct device *dev, struct gpio_descs *descs)
+
+
+Using GPIOs
+===========
+
+Setting Direction
+-----------------
+The first thing a driver must do with a GPIO is setting its direction. If no
+direction-setting flags have been given to gpiod_get*(), this is done by
+invoking one of the gpiod_direction_*() functions::
+
+	int gpiod_direction_input(struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	int gpiod_direction_output(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
+
+The return value is zero for success, else a negative errno. It should be
+checked, since the get/set calls don't return errors and since misconfiguration
+is possible. You should normally issue these calls from a task context. However,
+for spinlock-safe GPIOs it is OK to use them before tasking is enabled, as part
+of early board setup.
+
+For output GPIOs, the value provided becomes the initial output value. This
+helps avoid signal glitching during system startup.
+
+A driver can also query the current direction of a GPIO::
+
+	int gpiod_get_direction(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+This function returns 0 for output, 1 for input, or an error code in case of error.
+
+Be aware that there is no default direction for GPIOs. Therefore, **using a GPIO
+without setting its direction first is illegal and will result in undefined
+behavior!**
+
+
+Spinlock-Safe GPIO Access
+-------------------------
+Most GPIO controllers can be accessed with memory read/write instructions. Those
+don't need to sleep, and can safely be done from inside hard (non-threaded) IRQ
+handlers and similar contexts.
+
+Use the following calls to access GPIOs from an atomic context::
+
+	int gpiod_get_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc);
+	void gpiod_set_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value);
+
+The values are boolean, zero for low, nonzero for high. When reading the value
+of an output pin, the value returned should be what's seen on the pin. That
+won't always match the specified output value, because of issues including
+open-drain signaling and output latencies.
+
+The get/set calls do not return errors because "invalid GPIO" should have been
+reported earlier from gpiod_direction_*(). However, note that not all platforms
+can read the value of output pins; those that can't should always return zero.
+Also, using these calls for GPIOs that can't safely be accessed without sleeping
+(see below) is an error.
+
+
+GPIO Access That May Sleep
+--------------------------
+Some GPIO controllers must be accessed using message based buses like I2C or
+SPI. Commands to read or write those GPIO values require waiting to get to the
+head of a queue to transmit a command and get its response. This requires
+sleeping, which can't be done from inside IRQ handlers.
+
+Platforms that support this type of GPIO distinguish them from other GPIOs by
+returning nonzero from this call::
+
+	int gpiod_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined::
+
+	int gpiod_get_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	void gpiod_set_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
+
+Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep, for example a threaded
+IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of spinlock-safe
+accessors without the cansleep() name suffix.
+
+Other than the fact that these accessors might sleep, and will work on GPIOs
+that can't be accessed from hardIRQ handlers, these calls act the same as the
+spinlock-safe calls.
+
+
+.. _active_low_semantics:
+
+The active low and open drain semantics
+---------------------------------------
+As a consumer should not have to care about the physical line level, all of the
+gpiod_set_value_xxx() or gpiod_set_array_value_xxx() functions operate with
+the *logical* value. With this they take the active low property into account.
+This means that they check whether the GPIO is configured to be active low,
+and if so, they manipulate the passed value before the physical line level is
+driven.
+
+The same is applicable for open drain or open source output lines: those do not
+actively drive their output high (open drain) or low (open source), they just
+switch their output to a high impedance value. The consumer should not need to
+care. (For details read about open drain in driver.rst.)
+
+With this, all the gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() functions interpret the
+parameter "value" as "asserted" ("1") or "de-asserted" ("0"). The physical line
+level will be driven accordingly.
+
+As an example, if the active low property for a dedicated GPIO is set, and the
+gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() passes "asserted" ("1"), the physical line level
+will be driven low.
+
+To summarize::
+
+  Function (example)                 line property          physical line
+  gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 0);      don't care             low
+  gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 1);      don't care             high
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 0);          default (active high)  low
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 1);          default (active high)  high
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 0);          active low             high
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 1);          active low             low
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 0);          open drain             low
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 1);          open drain             high impedance
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 0);          open source            high impedance
+  gpiod_set_value(desc, 1);          open source            high
+
+It is possible to override these semantics using the set_raw/get_raw functions
+but it should be avoided as much as possible, especially by system-agnostic drivers
+which should not need to care about the actual physical line level and worry about
+the logical value instead.
+
+
+Accessing raw GPIO values
+-------------------------
+Consumers exist that need to manage the logical state of a GPIO line, i.e. the value
+their device will actually receive, no matter what lies between it and the GPIO
+line.
+
+The following set of calls ignore the active-low or open drain property of a GPIO and
+work on the raw line value::
+
+	int gpiod_get_raw_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	void gpiod_set_raw_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
+	int gpiod_get_raw_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	void gpiod_set_raw_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
+	int gpiod_direction_output_raw(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value)
+
+The active low state of a GPIO can also be queried and toggled using the
+following calls::
+
+	int gpiod_is_active_low(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	void gpiod_toggle_active_low(struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+Note that these functions should only be used with great moderation; a driver
+should not have to care about the physical line level or open drain semantics.
+
+
+Access multiple GPIOs with a single function call
+-------------------------------------------------
+The following functions get or set the values of an array of GPIOs::
+
+	int gpiod_get_array_value(unsigned int array_size,
+				  struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+				  struct gpio_array *array_info,
+				  unsigned long *value_bitmap);
+	int gpiod_get_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size,
+				      struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+				      struct gpio_array *array_info,
+				      unsigned long *value_bitmap);
+	int gpiod_get_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+					   struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+					   struct gpio_array *array_info,
+					   unsigned long *value_bitmap);
+	int gpiod_get_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+					   struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+					   struct gpio_array *array_info,
+					   unsigned long *value_bitmap);
+
+	int gpiod_set_array_value(unsigned int array_size,
+				  struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+				  struct gpio_array *array_info,
+				  unsigned long *value_bitmap)
+	int gpiod_set_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size,
+				      struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+				      struct gpio_array *array_info,
+				      unsigned long *value_bitmap)
+	int gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+					   struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+					   struct gpio_array *array_info,
+					   unsigned long *value_bitmap)
+	int gpiod_set_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+					       struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+					       struct gpio_array *array_info,
+					       unsigned long *value_bitmap)
+
+The array can be an arbitrary set of GPIOs. The functions will try to access
+GPIOs belonging to the same bank or chip simultaneously if supported by the
+corresponding chip driver. In that case a significantly improved performance
+can be expected. If simultaneous access is not possible the GPIOs will be
+accessed sequentially.
+
+The functions take four arguments:
+
+	* array_size	- the number of array elements
+	* desc_array	- an array of GPIO descriptors
+	* array_info	- optional information obtained from gpiod_get_array()
+	* value_bitmap	- a bitmap to store the GPIOs' values (get) or
+          a bitmap of values to assign to the GPIOs (set)
+
+The descriptor array can be obtained using the gpiod_get_array() function
+or one of its variants. If the group of descriptors returned by that function
+matches the desired group of GPIOs, those GPIOs can be accessed by simply using
+the struct gpio_descs returned by gpiod_get_array()::
+
+	struct gpio_descs *my_gpio_descs = gpiod_get_array(...);
+	gpiod_set_array_value(my_gpio_descs->ndescs, my_gpio_descs->desc,
+			      my_gpio_descs->info, my_gpio_value_bitmap);
+
+It is also possible to access a completely arbitrary array of descriptors. The
+descriptors may be obtained using any combination of gpiod_get() and
+gpiod_get_array(). Afterwards the array of descriptors has to be setup
+manually before it can be passed to one of the above functions.  In that case,
+array_info should be set to NULL.
+
+Note that for optimal performance GPIOs belonging to the same chip should be
+contiguous within the array of descriptors.
+
+Still better performance may be achieved if array indexes of the descriptors
+match hardware pin numbers of a single chip.  If an array passed to a get/set
+array function matches the one obtained from gpiod_get_array() and array_info
+associated with the array is also passed, the function may take a fast bitmap
+processing path, passing the value_bitmap argument directly to the respective
+.get/set_multiple() callback of the chip.  That allows for utilization of GPIO
+banks as data I/O ports without much loss of performance.
+
+The return value of gpiod_get_array_value() and its variants is 0 on success
+or negative on error. Note the difference to gpiod_get_value(), which returns
+0 or 1 on success to convey the GPIO value. With the array functions, the GPIO
+values are stored in value_array rather than passed back as return value.
+
+
+GPIOs mapped to IRQs
+--------------------
+GPIO lines can quite often be used as IRQs. You can get the IRQ number
+corresponding to a given GPIO using the following call::
+
+	int gpiod_to_irq(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+It will return an IRQ number, or a negative errno code if the mapping can't be
+done (most likely because that particular GPIO cannot be used as IRQ). It is an
+unchecked error to use a GPIO that wasn't set up as an input using
+gpiod_direction_input(), or to use an IRQ number that didn't originally come
+from gpiod_to_irq(). gpiod_to_irq() is not allowed to sleep.
+
+Non-error values returned from gpiod_to_irq() can be passed to request_irq() or
+free_irq(). They will often be stored into IRQ resources for platform devices,
+by the board-specific initialization code. Note that IRQ trigger options are
+part of the IRQ interface, e.g. IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, as are system wakeup
+capabilities.
+
+
+GPIOs and ACPI
+==============
+
+On ACPI systems, GPIOs are described by GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources listed by
+the _CRS configuration objects of devices.  Those resources do not provide
+connection IDs (names) for GPIOs, so it is necessary to use an additional
+mechanism for this purpose.
+
+Systems compliant with ACPI 5.1 or newer may provide a _DSD configuration object
+which, among other things, may be used to provide connection IDs for specific
+GPIOs described by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources in _CRS.  If that is the
+case, it will be handled by the GPIO subsystem automatically.  However, if the
+_DSD is not present, the mappings between GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and GPIO
+connection IDs need to be provided by device drivers.
+
+For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst
+
+
+Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem
+==========================================
+Many kernel subsystems and drivers still handle GPIOs using the legacy
+integer-based interface. It is strongly recommended to update these to the new
+gpiod interface. For cases where both interfaces need to be used, the following
+two functions allow to convert a GPIO descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace
+and vice-versa::
+
+	int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
+	struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio)
+
+The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can safely be used as a parameter of
+the gpio\_*() functions for as long as the GPIO descriptor `desc` is not freed.
+All the same, a GPIO number passed to gpio_to_desc() must first be properly
+acquired using e.g. gpio_request_one(), and the returned GPIO descriptor is only
+considered valid until that GPIO number is released using gpio_free().
+
+Freeing a GPIO obtained by one API with the other API is forbidden and an
+unchecked error.
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+=====================
+GPIO Driver Interface
+=====================
+
+This document serves as a guide for writers of GPIO chip drivers.
+
+Each GPIO controller driver needs to include the following header, which defines
+the structures used to define a GPIO driver::
+
+	#include <linux/gpio/driver.h>
+
+
+Internal Representation of GPIOs
+================================
+
+A GPIO chip handles one or more GPIO lines. To be considered a GPIO chip, the
+lines must conform to the definition: General Purpose Input/Output. If the
+line is not general purpose, it is not GPIO and should not be handled by a
+GPIO chip. The use case is the indicative: certain lines in a system may be
+called GPIO but serve a very particular purpose thus not meeting the criteria
+of a general purpose I/O. On the other hand a LED driver line may be used as a
+GPIO and should therefore still be handled by a GPIO chip driver.
+
+Inside a GPIO driver, individual GPIO lines are identified by their hardware
+number, sometime also referred to as ``offset``, which is a unique number
+between 0 and n-1, n being the number of GPIOs managed by the chip.
+
+The hardware GPIO number should be something intuitive to the hardware, for
+example if a system uses a memory-mapped set of I/O-registers where 32 GPIO
+lines are handled by one bit per line in a 32-bit register, it makes sense to
+use hardware offsets 0..31 for these, corresponding to bits 0..31 in the
+register.
+
+This number is purely internal: the hardware number of a particular GPIO
+line is never made visible outside of the driver.
+
+On top of this internal number, each GPIO line also needs to have a global
+number in the integer GPIO namespace so that it can be used with the legacy GPIO
+interface. Each chip must thus have a "base" number (which can be automatically
+assigned), and for each GPIO line the global number will be (base + hardware
+number). Although the integer representation is considered deprecated, it still
+has many users and thus needs to be maintained.
+
+So for example one platform could use global numbers 32-159 for GPIOs, with a
+controller defining 128 GPIOs at a "base" of 32 ; while another platform uses
+global numbers 0..63 with one set of GPIO controllers, 64-79 with another type
+of GPIO controller, and on one particular board 80-95 with an FPGA. The legacy
+numbers need not be contiguous; either of those platforms could also use numbers
+2000-2063 to identify GPIO lines in a bank of I2C GPIO expanders.
+
+
+Controller Drivers: gpio_chip
+=============================
+
+In the gpiolib framework each GPIO controller is packaged as a "struct
+gpio_chip" (see <linux/gpio/driver.h> for its complete definition) with members
+common to each controller of that type, these should be assigned by the
+driver code:
+
+ - methods to establish GPIO line direction
+ - methods used to access GPIO line values
+ - method to set electrical configuration for a given GPIO line
+ - method to return the IRQ number associated to a given GPIO line
+ - flag saying whether calls to its methods may sleep
+ - optional line names array to identify lines
+ - optional debugfs dump method (showing extra state information)
+ - optional base number (will be automatically assigned if omitted)
+ - optional label for diagnostics and GPIO chip mapping using platform data
+
+The code implementing a gpio_chip should support multiple instances of the
+controller, preferably using the driver model. That code will configure each
+gpio_chip and issue gpiochip_add(), gpiochip_add_data(), or
+devm_gpiochip_add_data().  Removing a GPIO controller should be rare; use
+gpiochip_remove() when it is unavoidable.
+
+Often a gpio_chip is part of an instance-specific structure with states not
+exposed by the GPIO interfaces, such as addressing, power management, and more.
+Chips such as audio codecs will have complex non-GPIO states.
+
+Any debugfs dump method should normally ignore lines which haven't been
+requested. They can use gpiochip_is_requested(), which returns either
+NULL or the label associated with that GPIO line when it was requested.
+
+Realtime considerations: the GPIO driver should not use spinlock_t or any
+sleepable APIs (like PM runtime) in its gpio_chip implementation (.get/.set
+and direction control callbacks) if it is expected to call GPIO APIs from
+atomic context on realtime kernels (inside hard IRQ handlers and similar
+contexts). Normally this should not be required.
+
+
+GPIO electrical configuration
+-----------------------------
+
+GPIO lines can be configured for several electrical modes of operation by using
+the .set_config() callback. Currently this API supports setting:
+
+- Debouncing
+- Single-ended modes (open drain/open source)
+- Pull up and pull down resistor enablement
+
+These settings are described below.
+
+The .set_config() callback uses the same enumerators and configuration
+semantics as the generic pin control drivers. This is not a coincidence: it is
+possible to assign the .set_config() to the function gpiochip_generic_config()
+which will result in pinctrl_gpio_set_config() being called and eventually
+ending up in the pin control back-end "behind" the GPIO controller, usually
+closer to the actual pins. This way the pin controller can manage the below
+listed GPIO configurations.
+
+If a pin controller back-end is used, the GPIO controller or hardware
+description needs to provide "GPIO ranges" mapping the GPIO line offsets to pin
+numbers on the pin controller so they can properly cross-reference each other.
+
+
+GPIO lines with debounce support
+--------------------------------
+
+Debouncing is a configuration set to a pin indicating that it is connected to
+a mechanical switch or button, or similar that may bounce. Bouncing means the
+line is pulled high/low quickly at very short intervals for mechanical
+reasons. This can result in the value being unstable or irqs firing repeatedly
+unless the line is debounced.
+
+Debouncing in practice involves setting up a timer when something happens on
+the line, wait a little while and then sample the line again, so see if it
+still has the same value (low or high). This could also be repeated by a clever
+state machine, waiting for a line to become stable. In either case, it sets
+a certain number of milliseconds for debouncing, or just "on/off" if that time
+is not configurable.
+
+
+GPIO lines with open drain/source support
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Open drain (CMOS) or open collector (TTL) means the line is not actively driven
+high: instead you provide the drain/collector as output, so when the transistor
+is not open, it will present a high-impedance (tristate) to the external rail::
+
+
+   CMOS CONFIGURATION      TTL CONFIGURATION
+
+            ||--- out              +--- out
+     in ----||                   |/
+            ||--+         in ----|
+                |                |\
+               GND	           GND
+
+This configuration is normally used as a way to achieve one of two things:
+
+- Level-shifting: to reach a logical level higher than that of the silicon
+  where the output resides.
+
+- Inverse wire-OR on an I/O line, for example a GPIO line, making it possible
+  for any driving stage on the line to drive it low even if any other output
+  to the same line is simultaneously driving it high. A special case of this
+  is driving the SCL and SDA lines of an I2C bus, which is by definition a
+  wire-OR bus.
+
+Both use cases require that the line be equipped with a pull-up resistor. This
+resistor will make the line tend to high level unless one of the transistors on
+the rail actively pulls it down.
+
+The level on the line will go as high as the VDD on the pull-up resistor, which
+may be higher than the level supported by the transistor, achieving a
+level-shift to the higher VDD.
+
+Integrated electronics often have an output driver stage in the form of a CMOS
+"totem-pole" with one N-MOS and one P-MOS transistor where one of them drives
+the line high and one of them drives the line low. This is called a push-pull
+output. The "totem-pole" looks like so::
+
+                     VDD
+                      |
+            OD    ||--+
+         +--/ ---o||     P-MOS-FET
+         |        ||--+
+    IN --+            +----- out
+         |        ||--+
+         +--/ ----||     N-MOS-FET
+            OS    ||--+
+                      |
+                     GND
+
+The desired output signal (e.g. coming directly from some GPIO output register)
+arrives at IN. The switches named "OD" and "OS" are normally closed, creating
+a push-pull circuit.
+
+Consider the little "switches" named "OD" and "OS" that enable/disable the
+P-MOS or N-MOS transistor right after the split of the input. As you can see,
+either transistor will go totally numb if this switch is open. The totem-pole
+is then halved and give high impedance instead of actively driving the line
+high or low respectively. That is usually how software-controlled open
+drain/source works.
+
+Some GPIO hardware come in open drain / open source configuration. Some are
+hard-wired lines that will only support open drain or open source no matter
+what: there is only one transistor there. Some are software-configurable:
+by flipping a bit in a register the output can be configured as open drain
+or open source, in practice by flicking open the switches labeled "OD" and "OS"
+in the drawing above.
+
+By disabling the P-MOS transistor, the output can be driven between GND and
+high impedance (open drain), and by disabling the N-MOS transistor, the output
+can be driven between VDD and high impedance (open source). In the first case,
+a pull-up resistor is needed on the outgoing rail to complete the circuit, and
+in the second case, a pull-down resistor is needed on the rail.
+
+Hardware that supports open drain or open source or both, can implement a
+special callback in the gpio_chip: .set_config() that takes a generic
+pinconf packed value telling whether to configure the line as open drain,
+open source or push-pull. This will happen in response to the
+GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN or GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE flag set in the machine file, or coming
+from other hardware descriptions.
+
+If this state can not be configured in hardware, i.e. if the GPIO hardware does
+not support open drain/open source in hardware, the GPIO library will instead
+use a trick: when a line is set as output, if the line is flagged as open
+drain, and the IN output value is low, it will be driven low as usual. But
+if the IN output value is set to high, it will instead *NOT* be driven high,
+instead it will be switched to input, as input mode is high impedance, thus
+achieving an "open drain emulation" of sorts: electrically the behaviour will
+be identical, with the exception of possible hardware glitches when switching
+the mode of the line.
+
+For open source configuration the same principle is used, just that instead
+of actively driving the line low, it is set to input.
+
+
+GPIO lines with pull up/down resistor support
+---------------------------------------------
+
+A GPIO line can support pull-up/down using the .set_config() callback. This
+means that a pull up or pull-down resistor is available on the output of the
+GPIO line, and this resistor is software controlled.
+
+In discrete designs, a pull-up or pull-down resistor is simply soldered on
+the circuit board. This is not something we deal with or model in software. The
+most you will think about these lines is that they will very likely be
+configured as open drain or open source (see the section above).
+
+The .set_config() callback can only turn pull up or down on and off, and will
+no have any semantic knowledge about the resistance used. It will only say
+switch a bit in a register enabling or disabling pull-up or pull-down.
+
+If the GPIO line supports shunting in different resistance values for the
+pull-up or pull-down resistor, the GPIO chip callback .set_config() will not
+suffice. For these complex use cases, a combined GPIO chip and pin controller
+need to be implemented, as the pin config interface of a pin controller
+supports more versatile control over electrical properties and can handle
+different pull-up or pull-down resistance values.
+
+
+GPIO drivers providing IRQs
+===========================
+
+It is custom that GPIO drivers (GPIO chips) are also providing interrupts,
+most often cascaded off a parent interrupt controller, and in some special
+cases the GPIO logic is melded with a SoC's primary interrupt controller.
+
+The IRQ portions of the GPIO block are implemented using an irq_chip, using
+the header <linux/irq.h>. So this combined driver is utilizing two sub-
+systems simultaneously: gpio and irq.
+
+It is legal for any IRQ consumer to request an IRQ from any irqchip even if it
+is a combined GPIO+IRQ driver. The basic premise is that gpio_chip and
+irq_chip are orthogonal, and offering their services independent of each
+other.
+
+gpiod_to_irq() is just a convenience function to figure out the IRQ for a
+certain GPIO line and should not be relied upon to have been called before
+the IRQ is used.
+
+Always prepare the hardware and make it ready for action in respective
+callbacks from the GPIO and irq_chip APIs. Do not rely on gpiod_to_irq() having
+been called first.
+
+We can divide GPIO irqchips in two broad categories:
+
+- CASCADED INTERRUPT CHIPS: this means that the GPIO chip has one common
+  interrupt output line, which is triggered by any enabled GPIO line on that
+  chip. The interrupt output line will then be routed to an parent interrupt
+  controller one level up, in the most simple case the systems primary
+  interrupt controller. This is modeled by an irqchip that will inspect bits
+  inside the GPIO controller to figure out which line fired it. The irqchip
+  part of the driver needs to inspect registers to figure this out and it
+  will likely also need to acknowledge that it is handling the interrupt
+  by clearing some bit (sometime implicitly, by just reading a status
+  register) and it will often need to set up the configuration such as
+  edge sensitivity (rising or falling edge, or high/low level interrupt for
+  example).
+
+- HIERARCHICAL INTERRUPT CHIPS: this means that each GPIO line has a dedicated
+  irq line to a parent interrupt controller one level up. There is no need
+  to inquire the GPIO hardware to figure out which line has fired, but it
+  may still be necessary to acknowledge the interrupt and set up configuration
+  such as edge sensitivity.
+
+Realtime considerations: a realtime compliant GPIO driver should not use
+spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs (like PM runtime) as part of its irqchip
+implementation.
+
+- spinlock_t should be replaced with raw_spinlock_t.[1]
+- If sleepable APIs have to be used, these can be done from the .irq_bus_lock()
+  and .irq_bus_unlock() callbacks, as these are the only slowpath callbacks
+  on an irqchip. Create the callbacks if needed.[2]
+
+
+Cascaded GPIO irqchips
+----------------------
+
+Cascaded GPIO irqchips usually fall in one of three categories:
+
+- CHAINED CASCADED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are usually the type that is embedded on
+  an SoC. This means that there is a fast IRQ flow handler for the GPIOs that
+  gets called in a chain from the parent IRQ handler, most typically the
+  system interrupt controller. This means that the GPIO irqchip handler will
+  be called immediately from the parent irqchip, while holding the IRQs
+  disabled. The GPIO irqchip will then end up calling something like this
+  sequence in its interrupt handler::
+
+    static irqreturn_t foo_gpio_irq(int irq, void *data)
+        chained_irq_enter(...);
+        generic_handle_irq(...);
+        chained_irq_exit(...);
+
+  Chained GPIO irqchips typically can NOT set the .can_sleep flag on
+  struct gpio_chip, as everything happens directly in the callbacks: no
+  slow bus traffic like I2C can be used.
+
+  Realtime considerations: Note that chained IRQ handlers will not be forced
+  threaded on -RT. As a result, spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs (like PM
+  runtime) can't be used in a chained IRQ handler.
+
+  If required (and if it can't be converted to the nested threaded GPIO irqchip,
+  see below) a chained IRQ handler can be converted to generic irq handler and
+  this way it will become a threaded IRQ handler on -RT and a hard IRQ handler
+  on non-RT (for example, see [3]).
+
+  The generic_handle_irq() is expected to be called with IRQ disabled,
+  so the IRQ core will complain if it is called from an IRQ handler which is
+  forced to a thread. The "fake?" raw lock can be used to work around this
+  problem::
+
+    raw_spinlock_t wa_lock;
+    static irqreturn_t omap_gpio_irq_handler(int irq, void *gpiobank)
+        unsigned long wa_lock_flags;
+        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&bank->wa_lock, wa_lock_flags);
+        generic_handle_irq(irq_find_mapping(bank->chip.irq.domain, bit));
+        raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bank->wa_lock, wa_lock_flags);
+
+- GENERIC CHAINED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are the same as "CHAINED GPIO irqchips",
+  but chained IRQ handlers are not used. Instead GPIO IRQs dispatching is
+  performed by generic IRQ handler which is configured using request_irq().
+  The GPIO irqchip will then end up calling something like this sequence in
+  its interrupt handler::
+
+    static irqreturn_t gpio_rcar_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
+        for each detected GPIO IRQ
+            generic_handle_irq(...);
+
+  Realtime considerations: this kind of handlers will be forced threaded on -RT,
+  and as result the IRQ core will complain that generic_handle_irq() is called
+  with IRQ enabled and the same work-around as for "CHAINED GPIO irqchips" can
+  be applied.
+
+- NESTED THREADED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are off-chip GPIO expanders and any
+  other GPIO irqchip residing on the other side of a sleeping bus such as I2C
+  or SPI.
+
+  Of course such drivers that need slow bus traffic to read out IRQ status and
+  similar, traffic which may in turn incur other IRQs to happen, cannot be
+  handled in a quick IRQ handler with IRQs disabled. Instead they need to spawn
+  a thread and then mask the parent IRQ line until the interrupt is handled
+  by the driver. The hallmark of this driver is to call something like
+  this in its interrupt handler::
+
+    static irqreturn_t foo_gpio_irq(int irq, void *data)
+        ...
+        handle_nested_irq(irq);
+
+  The hallmark of threaded GPIO irqchips is that they set the .can_sleep
+  flag on struct gpio_chip to true, indicating that this chip may sleep
+  when accessing the GPIOs.
+
+  These kinds of irqchips are inherently realtime tolerant as they are
+  already set up to handle sleeping contexts.
+
+
+Infrastructure helpers for GPIO irqchips
+----------------------------------------
+
+To help out in handling the set-up and management of GPIO irqchips and the
+associated irqdomain and resource allocation callbacks. These are activated
+by selecting the Kconfig symbol GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP. If the symbol
+IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY is also selected, hierarchical helpers will also be
+provided. A big portion of overhead code will be managed by gpiolib,
+under the assumption that your interrupts are 1-to-1-mapped to the
+GPIO line index:
+
+.. csv-table::
+    :header: GPIO line offset, Hardware IRQ
+
+    0,0
+    1,1
+    2,2
+    ...,...
+    ngpio-1, ngpio-1
+
+
+If some GPIO lines do not have corresponding IRQs, the bitmask valid_mask
+and the flag need_valid_mask in gpio_irq_chip can be used to mask off some
+lines as invalid for associating with IRQs.
+
+The preferred way to set up the helpers is to fill in the
+struct gpio_irq_chip inside struct gpio_chip before adding the gpio_chip.
+If you do this, the additional irq_chip will be set up by gpiolib at the
+same time as setting up the rest of the GPIO functionality. The following
+is a typical example of a chained cascaded interrupt handler using
+the gpio_irq_chip. Note how the mask/unmask (or disable/enable) functions
+call into the core gpiolib code:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+  /* Typical state container */
+  struct my_gpio {
+      struct gpio_chip gc;
+  };
+
+  static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt,
+       * and then call into the core code to synchronise the
+       * state.
+       */
+
+      gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+  }
+
+  static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt,
+       * after having called into the core code to synchronise
+       * the state.
+       */
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const
+   * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that
+   * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra
+   * callbacks to the structure.
+   */
+  static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = {
+      .name		= "my_gpio_irq",
+      .irq_ack		= my_gpio_ack_irq,
+      .irq_mask		= my_gpio_mask_irq,
+      .irq_unmask	= my_gpio_unmask_irq,
+      .irq_set_type	= my_gpio_set_irq_type,
+      .flags		= IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE,
+      /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */
+      GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS,
+  };
+
+  int irq; /* from platform etc */
+  struct my_gpio *g;
+  struct gpio_irq_chip *girq;
+
+  /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */
+  girq = &g->gc.irq;
+  gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip);
+  girq->parent_handler = ftgpio_gpio_irq_handler;
+  girq->num_parents = 1;
+  girq->parents = devm_kcalloc(dev, 1, sizeof(*girq->parents),
+                               GFP_KERNEL);
+  if (!girq->parents)
+      return -ENOMEM;
+  girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE;
+  girq->handler = handle_bad_irq;
+  girq->parents[0] = irq;
+
+  return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g);
+
+The helper supports using threaded interrupts as well. Then you just request
+the interrupt separately and go with it:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+  /* Typical state container */
+  struct my_gpio {
+      struct gpio_chip gc;
+  };
+
+  static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt,
+       * and then call into the core code to synchronise the
+       * state.
+       */
+
+      gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+  }
+
+  static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt,
+       * after having called into the core code to synchronise
+       * the state.
+       */
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const
+   * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that
+   * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra
+   * callbacks to the structure.
+   */
+  static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = {
+      .name		= "my_gpio_irq",
+      .irq_ack		= my_gpio_ack_irq,
+      .irq_mask		= my_gpio_mask_irq,
+      .irq_unmask	= my_gpio_unmask_irq,
+      .irq_set_type	= my_gpio_set_irq_type,
+      .flags		= IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE,
+      /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */
+      GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS,
+  };
+
+  int irq; /* from platform etc */
+  struct my_gpio *g;
+  struct gpio_irq_chip *girq;
+
+  ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL,
+		irq_thread_fn, IRQF_ONESHOT, "my-chip", g);
+  if (ret < 0)
+	return ret;
+
+  /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */
+  girq = &g->gc.irq;
+  gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip);
+  /* This will let us handle the parent IRQ in the driver */
+  girq->parent_handler = NULL;
+  girq->num_parents = 0;
+  girq->parents = NULL;
+  girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE;
+  girq->handler = handle_bad_irq;
+
+  return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g);
+
+The helper supports using hierarchical interrupt controllers as well.
+In this case the typical set-up will look like this:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+  /* Typical state container with dynamic irqchip */
+  struct my_gpio {
+      struct gpio_chip gc;
+      struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
+  };
+
+  static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt,
+       * and then call into the core code to synchronise the
+       * state.
+       */
+
+      gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+      irq_mask_mask_parent(d);
+  }
+
+  static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d)
+  {
+      struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
+      irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d);
+
+      gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq);
+
+      /*
+       * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt,
+       * after having called into the core code to synchronise
+       * the state.
+       */
+
+      irq_mask_unmask_parent(d);
+  }
+
+  /*
+   * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const
+   * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that
+   * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra
+   * callbacks to the structure.
+   */
+  static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = {
+      .name		= "my_gpio_irq",
+      .irq_ack		= my_gpio_ack_irq,
+      .irq_mask		= my_gpio_mask_irq,
+      .irq_unmask	= my_gpio_unmask_irq,
+      .irq_set_type	= my_gpio_set_irq_type,
+      .flags		= IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE,
+      /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */
+      GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS,
+  };
+
+  struct my_gpio *g;
+  struct gpio_irq_chip *girq;
+
+  /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */
+  girq = &g->gc.irq;
+  gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip);
+  girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE;
+  girq->handler = handle_bad_irq;
+  girq->fwnode = g->fwnode;
+  girq->parent_domain = parent;
+  girq->child_to_parent_hwirq = my_gpio_child_to_parent_hwirq;
+
+  return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g);
+
+As you can see pretty similar, but you do not supply a parent handler for
+the IRQ, instead a parent irqdomain, an fwnode for the hardware and
+a function .child_to_parent_hwirq() that has the purpose of looking up
+the parent hardware irq from a child (i.e. this gpio chip) hardware irq.
+As always it is good to look at examples in the kernel tree for advice
+on how to find the required pieces.
+
+If there is a need to exclude certain GPIO lines from the IRQ domain handled by
+these helpers, we can set .irq.need_valid_mask of the gpiochip before
+devm_gpiochip_add_data() or gpiochip_add_data() is called. This allocates an
+.irq.valid_mask with as many bits set as there are GPIO lines in the chip, each
+bit representing line 0..n-1. Drivers can exclude GPIO lines by clearing bits
+from this mask. The mask can be filled in the init_valid_mask() callback
+that is part of the struct gpio_irq_chip.
+
+To use the helpers please keep the following in mind:
+
+- Make sure to assign all relevant members of the struct gpio_chip so that
+  the irqchip can initialize. E.g. .dev and .can_sleep shall be set up
+  properly.
+
+- Nominally set gpio_irq_chip.handler to handle_bad_irq. Then, if your irqchip
+  is cascaded, set the handler to handle_level_irq() and/or handle_edge_irq()
+  in the irqchip .set_type() callback depending on what your controller
+  supports and what is requested by the consumer.
+
+
+Locking IRQ usage
+-----------------
+
+Since GPIO and irq_chip are orthogonal, we can get conflicts between different
+use cases. For example a GPIO line used for IRQs should be an input line,
+it does not make sense to fire interrupts on an output GPIO.
+
+If there is competition inside the subsystem which side is using the
+resource (a certain GPIO line and register for example) it needs to deny
+certain operations and keep track of usage inside of the gpiolib subsystem.
+
+Input GPIOs can be used as IRQ signals. When this happens, a driver is requested
+to mark the GPIO as being used as an IRQ::
+
+	int gpiochip_lock_as_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
+
+This will prevent the use of non-irq related GPIO APIs until the GPIO IRQ lock
+is released::
+
+	void gpiochip_unlock_as_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
+
+When implementing an irqchip inside a GPIO driver, these two functions should
+typically be called in the .startup() and .shutdown() callbacks from the
+irqchip.
+
+When using the gpiolib irqchip helpers, these callbacks are automatically
+assigned.
+
+
+Disabling and enabling IRQs
+---------------------------
+
+In some (fringe) use cases, a driver may be using a GPIO line as input for IRQs,
+but occasionally switch that line over to drive output and then back to being
+an input with interrupts again. This happens on things like CEC (Consumer
+Electronics Control).
+
+When a GPIO is used as an IRQ signal, then gpiolib also needs to know if
+the IRQ is enabled or disabled. In order to inform gpiolib about this,
+the irqchip driver should call::
+
+	void gpiochip_disable_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
+
+This allows drivers to drive the GPIO as an output while the IRQ is
+disabled. When the IRQ is enabled again, a driver should call::
+
+	void gpiochip_enable_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
+
+When implementing an irqchip inside a GPIO driver, these two functions should
+typically be called in the .irq_disable() and .irq_enable() callbacks from the
+irqchip.
+
+When IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE is not advertised by the irqchip, these callbacks
+are automatically assigned. This behaviour is deprecated and on its way
+to be removed from the kernel.
+
+
+Real-Time compliance for GPIO IRQ chips
+---------------------------------------
+
+Any provider of irqchips needs to be carefully tailored to support Real-Time
+preemption. It is desirable that all irqchips in the GPIO subsystem keep this
+in mind and do the proper testing to assure they are real time-enabled.
+
+So, pay attention on above realtime considerations in the documentation.
+
+The following is a checklist to follow when preparing a driver for real-time
+compliance:
+
+- ensure spinlock_t is not used as part irq_chip implementation
+- ensure that sleepable APIs are not used as part irq_chip implementation
+  If sleepable APIs have to be used, these can be done from the .irq_bus_lock()
+  and .irq_bus_unlock() callbacks
+- Chained GPIO irqchips: ensure spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs are not used
+  from the chained IRQ handler
+- Generic chained GPIO irqchips: take care about generic_handle_irq() calls and
+  apply corresponding work-around
+- Chained GPIO irqchips: get rid of the chained IRQ handler and use generic irq
+  handler if possible
+- regmap_mmio: it is possible to disable internal locking in regmap by setting
+  .disable_locking and handling the locking in the GPIO driver
+- Test your driver with the appropriate in-kernel real-time test cases for both
+  level and edge IRQs
+
+* [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg120425.html
+* [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1443209283-20781-2-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com
+* [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1443209283-20781-3-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com
+
+
+Requesting self-owned GPIO pins
+===============================
+
+Sometimes it is useful to allow a GPIO chip driver to request its own GPIO
+descriptors through the gpiolib API. A GPIO driver can use the following
+functions to request and free descriptors::
+
+	struct gpio_desc *gpiochip_request_own_desc(struct gpio_desc *desc,
+						    u16 hwnum,
+						    const char *label,
+						    enum gpiod_flags flags)
+
+	void gpiochip_free_own_desc(struct gpio_desc *desc)
+
+Descriptors requested with gpiochip_request_own_desc() must be released with
+gpiochip_free_own_desc().
+
+These functions must be used with care since they do not affect module use
+count. Do not use the functions to request gpio descriptors not owned by the
+calling driver.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af632d764
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+============================
+Subsystem drivers using GPIO
+============================
+
+Note that standard kernel drivers exist for common GPIO tasks and will provide
+the right in-kernel and userspace APIs/ABIs for the job, and that these
+drivers can quite easily interconnect with other kernel subsystems using
+hardware descriptions such as device tree or ACPI:
+
+- leds-gpio: drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c will handle LEDs connected to  GPIO
+  lines, giving you the LED sysfs interface
+
+- ledtrig-gpio: drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-gpio.c will provide a LED trigger,
+  i.e. a LED will turn on/off in response to a GPIO line going high or low
+  (and that LED may in turn use the leds-gpio as per above).
+
+- gpio-keys: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c is used when your GPIO line
+  can generate interrupts in response to a key press. Also supports debounce.
+
+- gpio-keys-polled: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys_polled.c is used when your
+  GPIO line cannot generate interrupts, so it needs to be periodically polled
+  by a timer.
+
+- gpio_mouse: drivers/input/mouse/gpio_mouse.c is used to provide a mouse with
+  up to three buttons by simply using GPIOs and no mouse port. You can cut the
+  mouse cable and connect the wires to GPIO lines or solder a mouse connector
+  to the lines for a more permanent solution of this type.
+
+- gpio-beeper: drivers/input/misc/gpio-beeper.c is used to provide a beep from
+  an external speaker connected to a GPIO line.
+
+- extcon-gpio: drivers/extcon/extcon-gpio.c is used when you need to read an
+  external connector status, such as a headset line for an audio driver or an
+  HDMI connector. It will provide a better userspace sysfs interface than GPIO.
+
+- restart-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-restart.c is used to restart/reboot
+  the system by pulling a GPIO line and will register a restart handler so
+  userspace can issue the right system call to restart the system.
+
+- poweroff-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-poweroff.c is used to power the
+  system down by pulling a GPIO line and will register a pm_power_off()
+  callback so that userspace can issue the right system call to power down the
+  system.
+
+- gpio-gate-clock: drivers/clk/clk-gpio.c is used to control a gated clock
+  (off/on) that uses a GPIO, and integrated with the clock subsystem.
+
+- i2c-gpio: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gpio.c is used to drive an I2C bus
+  (two wires, SDA and SCL lines) by hammering (bitbang) two GPIO lines. It will
+  appear as any other I2C bus to the system and makes it possible to connect
+  drivers for the I2C devices on the bus like any other I2C bus driver.
+
+- spi_gpio: drivers/spi/spi-gpio.c is used to drive an SPI bus (variable number
+  of wires, at least SCK and optionally MISO, MOSI and chip select lines) using
+  GPIO hammering (bitbang). It will appear as any other SPI bus on the system
+  and makes it possible to connect drivers for SPI devices on the bus like
+  any other SPI bus driver. For example any MMC/SD card can then be connected
+  to this SPI by using the mmc_spi host from the MMC/SD card subsystem.
+
+- w1-gpio: drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c is used to drive a one-wire bus using
+  a GPIO line, integrating with the W1 subsystem and handling devices on
+  the bus like any other W1 device.
+
+- gpio-fan: drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c is used to control a fan for cooling the
+  system, connected to a GPIO line (and optionally a GPIO alarm line),
+  presenting all the right in-kernel and sysfs interfaces to make your system
+  not overheat.
+
+- gpio-regulator: drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c is used to control a
+  regulator providing a certain voltage by pulling a GPIO line, integrating
+  with the regulator subsystem and giving you all the right interfaces.
+
+- gpio-wdt: drivers/watchdog/gpio_wdt.c is used to provide a watchdog timer
+  that will periodically "ping" a hardware connected to a GPIO line by toggling
+  it from 1-to-0-to-1. If that hardware does not receive its "ping"
+  periodically, it will reset the system.
+
+- gpio-nand: drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpio.c is used to connect a NAND flash chip
+  to a set of simple GPIO lines: RDY, NCE, ALE, CLE, NWP. It interacts with the
+  NAND flash MTD subsystem and provides chip access and partition parsing like
+  any other NAND driving hardware.
+
+- ps2-gpio: drivers/input/serio/ps2-gpio.c is used to drive a PS/2 (IBM) serio
+  bus, data and clock line, by bit banging two GPIO lines. It will appear as
+  any other serio bus to the system and makes it possible to connect drivers
+  for e.g. keyboards and other PS/2 protocol based devices.
+
+- cec-gpio: drivers/media/platform/cec-gpio/ is used to interact with a CEC
+  Consumer Electronics Control bus using only GPIO. It is used to communicate
+  with devices on the HDMI bus.
+
+- gpio-charger: drivers/power/supply/gpio-charger.c is used if you need to do
+  battery charging and all you have to go by to check the presence of the
+  AC charger or more complex tasks such as indicating charging status using
+  nothing but GPIO lines, this driver provides that and also a clearly defined
+  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
+MTD NOR flash has add-ons for extra GPIO lines too, though the address bus is
+usually connected directly to the flash.
+
+Use those instead of talking directly to the GPIOs from userspace; they
+integrate with kernel frameworks better than your userspace code could.
+Needless to say, just using the appropriate kernel drivers will simplify and
+speed up your embedded hacking in particular by providing ready-made components.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d48fe248
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+===================================
+General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
+===================================
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   intro
+   using-gpio
+   driver
+   consumer
+   board
+   drivers-on-gpio
+   legacy
+   bt8xxgpio
+
+Core
+====
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gpio/driver.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+   :export:
+
+ACPI support
+============
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c
+   :export:
+
+Device tree support
+===================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
+   :export:
+
+Device-managed API
+==================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devres.c
+   :export:
+
+sysfs helpers
+=============
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c
+   :export:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9c19243b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+============
+Introduction
+============
+
+
+GPIO Interfaces
+===============
+
+The documents in this directory give detailed instructions on how to access
+GPIOs in drivers, and how to write a driver for a device that provides GPIOs
+itself.
+
+Due to the history of GPIO interfaces in the kernel, there are two different
+ways to obtain and use GPIOs:
+
+  - The descriptor-based interface is the preferred way to manipulate GPIOs,
+    and is described by all the files in this directory excepted legacy.rst.
+  - The legacy integer-based interface which is considered deprecated (but still
+    usable for compatibility reasons) is documented in legacy.rst.
+
+The remainder of this document applies to the new descriptor-based interface.
+legacy.rst contains the same information applied to the legacy
+integer-based interface.
+
+
+What is a GPIO?
+===============
+
+A "General Purpose Input/Output" (GPIO) is a flexible software-controlled
+digital signal. They are provided from many kinds of chips, and are familiar
+to Linux developers working with embedded and custom hardware. Each GPIO
+represents a bit connected to a particular pin, or "ball" on Ball Grid Array
+(BGA) packages. Board schematics show which external hardware connects to
+which GPIOs. Drivers can be written generically, so that board setup code
+passes such pin configuration data to drivers.
+
+System-on-Chip (SOC) processors heavily rely on GPIOs. In some cases, every
+non-dedicated pin can be configured as a GPIO; and most chips have at least
+several dozen of them. Programmable logic devices (like FPGAs) can easily
+provide GPIOs; multifunction chips like power managers, and audio codecs
+often have a few such pins to help with pin scarcity on SOCs; and there are
+also "GPIO Expander" chips that connect using the I2C or SPI serial buses.
+Most PC southbridges have a few dozen GPIO-capable pins (with only the BIOS
+firmware knowing how they're used).
+
+The exact capabilities of GPIOs vary between systems. Common options:
+
+  - Output values are writable (high=1, low=0). Some chips also have
+    options about how that value is driven, so that for example only one
+    value might be driven, supporting "wire-OR" and similar schemes for the
+    other value (notably, "open drain" signaling).
+
+  - Input values are likewise readable (1, 0). Some chips support readback
+    of pins configured as "output", which is very useful in such "wire-OR"
+    cases (to support bidirectional signaling). GPIO controllers may have
+    input de-glitch/debounce logic, sometimes with software controls.
+
+  - Inputs can often be used as IRQ signals, often edge triggered but
+    sometimes level triggered. Such IRQs may be configurable as system
+    wakeup events, to wake the system from a low power state.
+
+  - Usually a GPIO will be configurable as either input or output, as needed
+    by different product boards; single direction ones exist too.
+
+  - Most GPIOs can be accessed while holding spinlocks, but those accessed
+    through a serial bus normally can't. Some systems support both types.
+
+On a given board each GPIO is used for one specific purpose like monitoring
+MMC/SD card insertion/removal, detecting card write-protect status, driving
+a LED, configuring a transceiver, bit-banging a serial bus, poking a hardware
+watchdog, sensing a switch, and so on.
+
+
+Common GPIO Properties
+======================
+
+These properties are met through all the other documents of the GPIO interface
+and it is useful to understand them, especially if you need to define GPIO
+mappings.
+
+Active-High and Active-Low
+--------------------------
+It is natural to assume that a GPIO is "active" when its output signal is 1
+("high"), and inactive when it is 0 ("low"). However in practice the signal of a
+GPIO may be inverted before is reaches its destination, or a device could decide
+to have different conventions about what "active" means. Such decisions should
+be transparent to device drivers, therefore it is possible to define a GPIO as
+being either active-high ("1" means "active", the default) or active-low ("0"
+means "active") so that drivers only need to worry about the logical signal and
+not about what happens at the line level.
+
+Open Drain and Open Source
+--------------------------
+Sometimes shared signals need to use "open drain" (where only the low signal
+level is actually driven), or "open source" (where only the high signal level is
+driven) signaling. That term applies to CMOS transistors; "open collector" is
+used for TTL. A pullup or pulldown resistor causes the high or low signal level.
+This is sometimes called a "wire-AND"; or more practically, from the negative
+logic (low=true) perspective this is a "wire-OR".
+
+One common example of an open drain signal is a shared active-low IRQ line.
+Also, bidirectional data bus signals sometimes use open drain signals.
+
+Some GPIO controllers directly support open drain and open source outputs; many
+don't. When you need open drain signaling but your hardware doesn't directly
+support it, there's a common idiom you can use to emulate it with any GPIO pin
+that can be used as either an input or an output:
+
+ **LOW**: ``gpiod_direction_output(gpio, 0)`` ... this drives the signal and
+ overrides the pullup.
+
+ **HIGH**: ``gpiod_direction_input(gpio)`` ... this turns off the output, so
+ the pullup (or some other device) controls the signal.
+
+The same logic can be applied to emulate open source signaling, by driving the
+high signal and configuring the GPIO as input for low. This open drain/open
+source emulation can be handled transparently by the GPIO framework.
+
+If you are "driving" the signal high but gpiod_get_value(gpio) reports a low
+value (after the appropriate rise time passes), you know some other component is
+driving the shared signal low. That's not necessarily an error. As one common
+example, that's how I2C clocks are stretched:  a slave that needs a slower clock
+delays the rising edge of SCK, and the I2C master adjusts its signaling rate
+accordingly.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst
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+======================
+Legacy GPIO Interfaces
+======================
+
+This provides an overview of GPIO access conventions on Linux.
+
+These calls use the gpio_* naming prefix.  No other calls should use that
+prefix, or the related __gpio_* prefix.
+
+
+What is a GPIO?
+===============
+A "General Purpose Input/Output" (GPIO) is a flexible software-controlled
+digital signal.  They are provided from many kinds of chip, and are familiar
+to Linux developers working with embedded and custom hardware.  Each GPIO
+represents a bit connected to a particular pin, or "ball" on Ball Grid Array
+(BGA) packages.  Board schematics show which external hardware connects to
+which GPIOs.  Drivers can be written generically, so that board setup code
+passes such pin configuration data to drivers.
+
+System-on-Chip (SOC) processors heavily rely on GPIOs.  In some cases, every
+non-dedicated pin can be configured as a GPIO; and most chips have at least
+several dozen of them.  Programmable logic devices (like FPGAs) can easily
+provide GPIOs; multifunction chips like power managers, and audio codecs
+often have a few such pins to help with pin scarcity on SOCs; and there are
+also "GPIO Expander" chips that connect using the I2C or SPI serial busses.
+Most PC southbridges have a few dozen GPIO-capable pins (with only the BIOS
+firmware knowing how they're used).
+
+The exact capabilities of GPIOs vary between systems.  Common options:
+
+  - Output values are writable (high=1, low=0).  Some chips also have
+    options about how that value is driven, so that for example only one
+    value might be driven ... supporting "wire-OR" and similar schemes
+    for the other value (notably, "open drain" signaling).
+
+  - Input values are likewise readable (1, 0).  Some chips support readback
+    of pins configured as "output", which is very useful in such "wire-OR"
+    cases (to support bidirectional signaling).  GPIO controllers may have
+    input de-glitch/debounce logic, sometimes with software controls.
+
+  - Inputs can often be used as IRQ signals, often edge triggered but
+    sometimes level triggered.  Such IRQs may be configurable as system
+    wakeup events, to wake the system from a low power state.
+
+  - Usually a GPIO will be configurable as either input or output, as needed
+    by different product boards; single direction ones exist too.
+
+  - Most GPIOs can be accessed while holding spinlocks, but those accessed
+    through a serial bus normally can't.  Some systems support both types.
+
+On a given board each GPIO is used for one specific purpose like monitoring
+MMC/SD card insertion/removal, detecting card writeprotect status, driving
+a LED, configuring a transceiver, bitbanging a serial bus, poking a hardware
+watchdog, sensing a switch, and so on.
+
+
+GPIO conventions
+================
+Note that this is called a "convention" because you don't need to do it this
+way, and it's no crime if you don't.  There **are** cases where portability
+is not the main issue; GPIOs are often used for the kind of board-specific
+glue logic that may even change between board revisions, and can't ever be
+used on a board that's wired differently.  Only least-common-denominator
+functionality can be very portable.  Other features are platform-specific,
+and that can be critical for glue logic.
+
+Plus, this doesn't require any implementation framework, just an interface.
+One platform might implement it as simple inline functions accessing chip
+registers; another might implement it by delegating through abstractions
+used for several very different kinds of GPIO controller.  (There is some
+optional code supporting such an implementation strategy, described later
+in this document, but drivers acting as clients to the GPIO interface must
+not care how it's implemented.)
+
+That said, if the convention is supported on their platform, drivers should
+use it when possible.  Platforms must select GPIOLIB if GPIO functionality
+is strictly required.  Drivers that can't work without
+standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries which depend on GPIOLIB.  The
+GPIO calls are available, either as "real code" or as optimized-away stubs,
+when drivers use the include file:
+
+	#include <linux/gpio.h>
+
+If you stick to this convention then it'll be easier for other developers to
+see what your code is doing, and help maintain it.
+
+Note that these operations include I/O barriers on platforms which need to
+use them; drivers don't need to add them explicitly.
+
+
+Identifying GPIOs
+-----------------
+GPIOs are identified by unsigned integers in the range 0..MAX_INT.  That
+reserves "negative" numbers for other purposes like marking signals as
+"not available on this board", or indicating faults.  Code that doesn't
+touch the underlying hardware treats these integers as opaque cookies.
+
+Platforms define how they use those integers, and usually #define symbols
+for the GPIO lines so that board-specific setup code directly corresponds
+to the relevant schematics.  In contrast, drivers should only use GPIO
+numbers passed to them from that setup code, using platform_data to hold
+board-specific pin configuration data (along with other board specific
+data they need).  That avoids portability problems.
+
+So for example one platform uses numbers 32-159 for GPIOs; while another
+uses numbers 0..63 with one set of GPIO controllers, 64-79 with another
+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 such number from such a structure 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 temporarily unused on a given board.
+
+Whether a platform supports multiple GPIO controllers is a platform-specific
+implementation issue, as are whether that support can leave "holes" in the space
+of GPIO numbers, and whether new controllers can be added at runtime.  Such issues
+can affect things including whether adjacent GPIO numbers are both valid.
+
+Using GPIOs
+-----------
+The first thing a system should do with a GPIO is allocate it, using
+the gpio_request() call; see later.
+
+One of the next things to do with a GPIO, often in board setup code when
+setting up a platform_device using the GPIO, is mark its direction::
+
+	/* set as input or output, returning 0 or negative errno */
+	int gpio_direction_input(unsigned gpio);
+	int gpio_direction_output(unsigned gpio, int value);
+
+The return value is zero for success, else a negative errno.  It should
+be checked, since the get/set calls don't have error returns and since
+misconfiguration is possible.  You should normally issue these calls from
+a task context.  However, for spinlock-safe GPIOs it's OK to use them
+before tasking is enabled, as part of early board setup.
+
+For output GPIOs, the value provided becomes the initial output value.
+This helps avoid signal glitching during system startup.
+
+For compatibility with legacy interfaces to GPIOs, setting the direction
+of a GPIO implicitly requests that GPIO (see below) if it has not been
+requested already.  That compatibility is being removed from the optional
+gpiolib framework.
+
+Setting the direction can fail if the GPIO number is invalid, or when
+that particular GPIO can't be used in that mode.  It's generally a bad
+idea to rely on boot firmware to have set the direction correctly, since
+it probably wasn't validated to do more than boot Linux.  (Similarly,
+that board setup code probably needs to multiplex that pin as a GPIO,
+and configure pullups/pulldowns appropriately.)
+
+
+Spinlock-Safe GPIO access
+-------------------------
+Most GPIO controllers can be accessed with memory read/write instructions.
+Those don't need to sleep, and can safely be done from inside hard
+(nonthreaded) IRQ handlers and similar contexts.
+
+Use the following calls to access such GPIOs,
+for which gpio_cansleep() will always return false (see below)::
+
+	/* GPIO INPUT:  return zero or nonzero */
+	int gpio_get_value(unsigned gpio);
+
+	/* GPIO OUTPUT */
+	void gpio_set_value(unsigned gpio, int value);
+
+The values are boolean, zero for low, nonzero for high.  When reading the
+value of an output pin, the value returned should be what's seen on the
+pin ... that won't always match the specified output value, because of
+issues including open-drain signaling and output latencies.
+
+The get/set calls have no error returns because "invalid GPIO" should have
+been reported earlier from gpio_direction_*().  However, note that not all
+platforms can read the value of output pins; those that can't should always
+return zero.  Also, using these calls for GPIOs that can't safely be accessed
+without sleeping (see below) is an error.
+
+Platform-specific implementations are encouraged to optimize the two
+calls to access the GPIO value in cases where the GPIO number (and for
+output, value) are constant.  It's normal for them to need only a couple
+of instructions in such cases (reading or writing a hardware register),
+and not to need spinlocks.  Such optimized calls can make bitbanging
+applications a lot more efficient (in both space and time) than spending
+dozens of instructions on subroutine calls.
+
+
+GPIO access that may sleep
+--------------------------
+Some GPIO controllers must be accessed using message based busses like I2C
+or SPI.  Commands to read or write those GPIO values require waiting to
+get to the head of a queue to transmit a command and get its response.
+This requires sleeping, which can't be done from inside IRQ handlers.
+
+Platforms that support this type of GPIO distinguish them from other GPIOs
+by returning nonzero from this call (which requires a valid GPIO number,
+which should have been previously allocated with gpio_request)::
+
+	int gpio_cansleep(unsigned gpio);
+
+To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined::
+
+	/* GPIO INPUT:  return zero or nonzero, might sleep */
+	int gpio_get_value_cansleep(unsigned gpio);
+
+	/* GPIO OUTPUT, might sleep */
+	void gpio_set_value_cansleep(unsigned gpio, int value);
+
+
+Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep,  for example
+a threaded IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of
+spinlock-safe accessors without the cansleep() name suffix.
+
+Other than the fact that these accessors might sleep, and will work
+on GPIOs that can't be accessed from hardIRQ handlers, these calls act
+the same as the spinlock-safe calls.
+
+**IN ADDITION** calls to setup and configure such GPIOs must be made
+from contexts which may sleep, since they may need to access the GPIO
+controller chip too  (These setup calls are usually made from board
+setup or driver probe/teardown code, so this is an easy constraint.)::
+
+                gpio_direction_input()
+                gpio_direction_output()
+                gpio_request()
+
+        ## 	gpio_request_one()
+        ##	gpio_request_array()
+        ## 	gpio_free_array()
+
+                gpio_free()
+                gpio_set_debounce()
+
+
+
+Claiming and Releasing GPIOs
+----------------------------
+To help catch system configuration errors, two calls are defined::
+
+	/* request GPIO, returning 0 or negative errno.
+	 * non-null labels may be useful for diagnostics.
+	 */
+	int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label);
+
+	/* release previously-claimed GPIO */
+	void gpio_free(unsigned gpio);
+
+Passing invalid GPIO numbers to gpio_request() will fail, as will requesting
+GPIOs that have already been claimed with that call.  The return value of
+gpio_request() must be checked.  You should normally issue these calls from
+a task context.  However, for spinlock-safe GPIOs it's OK to request GPIOs
+before tasking is enabled, as part of early board setup.
+
+These calls serve two basic purposes.  One is marking the signals which
+are actually in use as GPIOs, for better diagnostics; systems may have
+several hundred potential GPIOs, but often only a dozen are used on any
+given board.  Another is to catch conflicts, identifying errors when
+(a) two or more drivers wrongly think they have exclusive use of that
+signal, or (b) something wrongly believes it's safe to remove drivers
+needed to manage a signal that's in active use.  That is, requesting a
+GPIO can serve as a kind of lock.
+
+Some platforms may also use knowledge about what GPIOs are active for
+power management, such as by powering down unused chip sectors and, more
+easily, gating off unused clocks.
+
+For GPIOs that use pins known to the pinctrl subsystem, that subsystem should
+be informed of their use; a gpiolib driver's .request() operation may call
+pinctrl_gpio_request(), and a gpiolib driver's .free() operation may call
+pinctrl_gpio_free(). The pinctrl subsystem allows a pinctrl_gpio_request()
+to succeed concurrently with a pin or pingroup being "owned" by a device for
+pin multiplexing.
+
+Any programming of pin multiplexing hardware that is needed to route the
+GPIO signal to the appropriate pin should occur within a GPIO driver's
+.direction_input() or .direction_output() operations, and occur after any
+setup of an output GPIO's value. This allows a glitch-free migration from a
+pin's special function to GPIO. This is sometimes required when using a GPIO
+to implement a workaround on signals typically driven by a non-GPIO HW block.
+
+Some platforms allow some or all GPIO signals to be routed to different pins.
+Similarly, other aspects of the GPIO or pin may need to be configured, such as
+pullup/pulldown. Platform software should arrange that any such details are
+configured prior to gpio_request() being called for those GPIOs, e.g. using
+the pinctrl subsystem's mapping table, so that GPIO users need not be aware
+of these details.
+
+Also note that it's your responsibility to have stopped using a GPIO
+before you free it.
+
+Considering in most cases GPIOs are actually configured right after they
+are claimed, three additional calls are defined::
+
+	/* request a single GPIO, with initial configuration specified by
+	 * 'flags', identical to gpio_request() wrt other arguments and
+	 * return value
+	 */
+	int gpio_request_one(unsigned gpio, unsigned long flags, const char *label);
+
+	/* request multiple GPIOs in a single call
+	 */
+	int gpio_request_array(struct gpio *array, size_t num);
+
+	/* release multiple GPIOs in a single call
+	 */
+	void gpio_free_array(struct gpio *array, size_t num);
+
+where 'flags' is currently defined to specify the following properties:
+
+	* GPIOF_DIR_IN		- to configure direction as input
+	* GPIOF_DIR_OUT		- to configure direction as output
+
+	* GPIOF_INIT_LOW	- as output, set initial level to LOW
+	* GPIOF_INIT_HIGH	- as output, set initial level to HIGH
+	* GPIOF_OPEN_DRAIN	- gpio pin is open drain type.
+	* GPIOF_OPEN_SOURCE	- gpio pin is open source type.
+
+	* GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_FIXED	- export gpio to sysfs, keep direction
+	* GPIOF_EXPORT_DIR_CHANGEABLE	- also export, allow changing direction
+
+since GPIOF_INIT_* are only valid when configured as output, so group valid
+combinations as:
+
+	* GPIOF_IN		- configure as input
+	* GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW	- configured as output, initial level LOW
+	* GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH	- configured as output, initial level HIGH
+
+When setting the flag as GPIOF_OPEN_DRAIN then it will assume that pins is
+open drain type. Such pins will not be driven to 1 in output mode. It is
+require to connect pull-up on such pins. By enabling this flag, gpio lib will
+make the direction to input when it is asked to set value of 1 in output mode
+to make the pin HIGH. The pin is make to LOW by driving value 0 in output mode.
+
+When setting the flag as GPIOF_OPEN_SOURCE then it will assume that pins is
+open source type. Such pins will not be driven to 0 in output mode. It is
+require to connect pull-down on such pin. By enabling this flag, gpio lib will
+make the direction to input when it is asked to set value of 0 in output mode
+to make the pin LOW. The pin is make to HIGH by driving value 1 in output mode.
+
+In the future, these flags can be extended to support more properties.
+
+Further more, to ease the claim/release of multiple GPIOs, 'struct gpio' is
+introduced to encapsulate all three fields as::
+
+	struct gpio {
+		unsigned	gpio;
+		unsigned long	flags;
+		const char	*label;
+	};
+
+A typical example of usage::
+
+	static struct gpio leds_gpios[] = {
+		{ 32, GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH, "Power LED" }, /* default to ON */
+		{ 33, GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW,  "Green LED" }, /* default to OFF */
+		{ 34, GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW,  "Red LED"   }, /* default to OFF */
+		{ 35, GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW,  "Blue LED"  }, /* default to OFF */
+		{ ... },
+	};
+
+	err = gpio_request_one(31, GPIOF_IN, "Reset Button");
+	if (err)
+		...
+
+	err = gpio_request_array(leds_gpios, ARRAY_SIZE(leds_gpios));
+	if (err)
+		...
+
+	gpio_free_array(leds_gpios, ARRAY_SIZE(leds_gpios));
+
+
+GPIOs mapped to IRQs
+--------------------
+GPIO numbers are unsigned integers; so are IRQ numbers.  These make up
+two logically distinct namespaces (GPIO 0 need not use IRQ 0).  You can
+map between them using calls like::
+
+	/* map GPIO numbers to IRQ numbers */
+	int gpio_to_irq(unsigned gpio);
+
+	/* map IRQ numbers to GPIO numbers (avoid using this) */
+	int irq_to_gpio(unsigned irq);
+
+Those return either the corresponding number in the other namespace, or
+else a negative errno code if the mapping can't be done.  (For example,
+some GPIOs can't be used as IRQs.)  It is an unchecked error to use a GPIO
+number that wasn't set up as an input using gpio_direction_input(), or
+to use an IRQ number that didn't originally come from gpio_to_irq().
+
+These two mapping calls are expected to cost on the order of a single
+addition or subtraction.  They're not allowed to sleep.
+
+Non-error values returned from gpio_to_irq() can be passed to request_irq()
+or free_irq().  They will often be stored into IRQ resources for platform
+devices, by the board-specific initialization code.  Note that IRQ trigger
+options are part of the IRQ interface, e.g. IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, as are
+system wakeup capabilities.
+
+Non-error values returned from irq_to_gpio() would most commonly be used
+with gpio_get_value(), for example to initialize or update driver state
+when the IRQ is edge-triggered.  Note that some platforms don't support
+this reverse mapping, so you should avoid using it.
+
+
+Emulating Open Drain Signals
+----------------------------
+Sometimes shared signals need to use "open drain" signaling, where only the
+low signal level is actually driven.  (That term applies to CMOS transistors;
+"open collector" is used for TTL.)  A pullup resistor causes the high signal
+level.  This is sometimes called a "wire-AND"; or more practically, from the
+negative logic (low=true) perspective this is a "wire-OR".
+
+One common example of an open drain signal is a shared active-low IRQ line.
+Also, bidirectional data bus signals sometimes use open drain signals.
+
+Some GPIO controllers directly support open drain outputs; many don't.  When
+you need open drain signaling but your hardware doesn't directly support it,
+there's a common idiom you can use to emulate it with any GPIO pin that can
+be used as either an input or an output:
+
+ LOW:	gpio_direction_output(gpio, 0) ... this drives the signal
+	and overrides the pullup.
+
+ HIGH:	gpio_direction_input(gpio) ... this turns off the output,
+	so the pullup (or some other device) controls the signal.
+
+If you are "driving" the signal high but gpio_get_value(gpio) reports a low
+value (after the appropriate rise time passes), you know some other component
+is driving the shared signal low.  That's not necessarily an error.  As one
+common example, that's how I2C clocks are stretched:  a slave that needs a
+slower clock delays the rising edge of SCK, and the I2C master adjusts its
+signaling rate accordingly.
+
+
+GPIO controllers and the pinctrl subsystem
+------------------------------------------
+
+A GPIO controller on a SOC might be tightly coupled with the pinctrl
+subsystem, in the sense that the pins can be used by other functions
+together with an optional gpio feature. We have already covered the
+case where e.g. a GPIO controller need to reserve a pin or set the
+direction of a pin by calling any of::
+
+  pinctrl_gpio_request()
+  pinctrl_gpio_free()
+  pinctrl_gpio_direction_input()
+  pinctrl_gpio_direction_output()
+
+But how does the pin control subsystem cross-correlate the GPIO
+numbers (which are a global business) to a certain pin on a certain
+pin controller?
+
+This is done by registering "ranges" of pins, which are essentially
+cross-reference tables. These are described in
+Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
+
+While the pin allocation is totally managed by the pinctrl subsystem,
+gpio (under gpiolib) is still maintained by gpio drivers. It may happen
+that different pin ranges in a SoC is managed by different gpio drivers.
+
+This makes it logical to let gpio drivers announce their pin ranges to
+the pin ctrl subsystem before it will call 'pinctrl_gpio_request' in order
+to request the corresponding pin to be prepared by the pinctrl subsystem
+before any gpio usage.
+
+For this, the gpio controller can register its pin range with pinctrl
+subsystem. There are two ways of doing it currently: with or without DT.
+
+For with DT support refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt.
+
+For non-DT support, user can call gpiochip_add_pin_range() with appropriate
+parameters to register a range of gpio pins with a pinctrl driver. For this
+exact name string of pinctrl device has to be passed as one of the
+argument to this routine.
+
+
+What do these conventions omit?
+===============================
+One of the biggest things these conventions omit is pin multiplexing, since
+this is highly chip-specific and nonportable.  One platform might not need
+explicit multiplexing; another might have just two options for use of any
+given pin; another might have eight options per pin; another might be able
+to route a given GPIO to any one of several pins.  (Yes, those examples all
+come from systems that run Linux today.)
+
+Related to multiplexing is configuration and enabling of the pullups or
+pulldowns integrated on some platforms.  Not all platforms support them,
+or support them in the same way; and any given board might use external
+pullups (or pulldowns) so that the on-chip ones should not be used.
+(When a circuit needs 5 kOhm, on-chip 100 kOhm resistors won't do.)
+Likewise drive strength (2 mA vs 20 mA) and voltage (1.8V vs 3.3V) is a
+platform-specific issue, as are models like (not) having a one-to-one
+correspondence between configurable pins and GPIOs.
+
+There are other system-specific mechanisms that are not specified here,
+like the aforementioned options for input de-glitching and wire-OR output.
+Hardware may support reading or writing GPIOs in gangs, but that's usually
+configuration dependent:  for GPIOs sharing the same bank.  (GPIOs are
+commonly grouped in banks of 16 or 32, with a given SOC having several such
+banks.)  Some systems can trigger IRQs from output GPIOs, or read values
+from pins not managed as GPIOs.  Code relying on such mechanisms will
+necessarily be nonportable.
+
+Dynamic definition of GPIOs is not currently standard; for example, as
+a side effect of configuring an add-on board with some GPIO expanders.
+
+
+GPIO implementor's framework (OPTIONAL)
+=======================================
+As noted earlier, there is an optional implementation framework making it
+easier for platforms to support different kinds of GPIO controller using
+the same programming interface.  This framework is called "gpiolib".
+
+As a debugging aid, if debugfs is available a /sys/kernel/debug/gpio file
+will be found there.  That will list all the controllers registered through
+this framework, and the state of the GPIOs currently in use.
+
+
+Controller Drivers: gpio_chip
+-----------------------------
+In this framework each GPIO controller is packaged as a "struct gpio_chip"
+with information common to each controller of that type:
+
+ - methods to establish GPIO direction
+ - methods used to access GPIO values
+ - flag saying whether calls to its methods may sleep
+ - optional debugfs dump method (showing extra state like pullup config)
+ - label for diagnostics
+
+There is also per-instance data, which may come from device.platform_data:
+the number of its first GPIO, and how many GPIOs it exposes.
+
+The code implementing a gpio_chip should support multiple instances of the
+controller, possibly using the driver model.  That code will configure each
+gpio_chip and issue gpiochip_add().  Removing a GPIO controller should be
+rare; use gpiochip_remove() when it is unavoidable.
+
+Most often a gpio_chip is part of an instance-specific structure with state
+not exposed by the GPIO interfaces, such as addressing, power management,
+and more.  Chips such as codecs will have complex non-GPIO state.
+
+Any debugfs dump method should normally ignore signals which haven't been
+requested as GPIOs.  They can use gpiochip_is_requested(), which returns
+either NULL or the label associated with that GPIO when it was requested.
+
+
+Platform Support
+----------------
+To force-enable this framework, a platform's Kconfig will "select" GPIOLIB,
+else it is up to the user to configure support for GPIO.
+
+It may also provide a custom value for ARCH_NR_GPIOS, so that it better
+reflects the number of GPIOs in actual use on that platform, without
+wasting static table space.  (It should count both built-in/SoC GPIOs and
+also ones on GPIO expanders.
+
+If neither of these options are selected, the platform does not support
+GPIOs through GPIO-lib and the code cannot be enabled by the user.
+
+Trivial implementations of those functions can directly use framework
+code, which always dispatches through the gpio_chip::
+
+  #define gpio_get_value	__gpio_get_value
+  #define gpio_set_value	__gpio_set_value
+  #define gpio_cansleep		__gpio_cansleep
+
+Fancier implementations could instead define those as inline functions with
+logic optimizing access to specific SOC-based GPIOs.  For example, if the
+referenced GPIO is the constant "12", getting or setting its value could
+cost as little as two or three instructions, never sleeping.  When such an
+optimization is not possible those calls must delegate to the framework
+code, costing at least a few dozen instructions.  For bitbanged I/O, such
+instruction savings can be significant.
+
+For SOCs, platform-specific code defines and registers gpio_chip instances
+for each bank of on-chip GPIOs.  Those GPIOs should be numbered/labeled to
+match chip vendor documentation, and directly match board schematics.  They
+may well start at zero and go up to a platform-specific limit.  Such GPIOs
+are normally integrated into platform initialization to make them always be
+available, from arch_initcall() or earlier; they can often serve as IRQs.
+
+
+Board Support
+-------------
+For external GPIO controllers -- such as I2C or SPI expanders, ASICs, multi
+function devices, FPGAs or CPLDs -- most often board-specific code handles
+registering controller devices and ensures that their drivers know what GPIO
+numbers to use with gpiochip_add().  Their numbers often start right after
+platform-specific GPIOs.
+
+For example, board setup code could create structures identifying the range
+of GPIOs that chip will expose, and passes them to each GPIO expander chip
+using platform_data.  Then the chip driver's probe() routine could pass that
+data to gpiochip_add().
+
+Initialization order can be important.  For example, when a device relies on
+an I2C-based GPIO, its probe() routine should only be called after that GPIO
+becomes available.  That may mean the device should not be registered until
+calls for that GPIO can work.  One way to address such dependencies is for
+such gpio_chip controllers to provide setup() and teardown() callbacks to
+board specific code; those board specific callbacks would register devices
+once all the necessary resources are available, and remove them later when
+the GPIO controller device becomes unavailable.
+
+
+Sysfs Interface for Userspace (OPTIONAL)
+========================================
+Platforms which use the "gpiolib" implementors framework may choose to
+configure a sysfs user interface to GPIOs.  This is different from the
+debugfs interface, since it provides control over GPIO direction and
+value instead of just showing a gpio state summary.  Plus, it could be
+present on production systems without debugging support.
+
+Given appropriate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
+know for example that GPIO #23 controls the write protect line used to
+protect boot loader segments in flash memory.  System upgrade procedures
+may need to temporarily remove that protection, first importing a GPIO,
+then changing its output state, then updating the code before re-enabling
+the write protection.  In normal use, GPIO #23 would never be touched,
+and the kernel would have no need to know about it.
+
+Again depending on appropriate hardware documentation, on some systems
+userspace GPIO can be used to determine system configuration data that
+standard kernels won't know about.  And for some tasks, simple userspace
+GPIO drivers could be all that the system really needs.
+
+Note that standard kernel drivers exist for common "LEDs and Buttons"
+GPIO tasks:  "leds-gpio" and "gpio_keys", respectively.  Use those
+instead of talking directly to the GPIOs; they integrate with kernel
+frameworks better than your userspace code could.
+
+
+Paths in Sysfs
+--------------
+There are three kinds of entry in /sys/class/gpio:
+
+   -	Control interfaces used to get userspace control over GPIOs;
+
+   -	GPIOs themselves; and
+
+   -	GPIO controllers ("gpio_chip" instances).
+
+That's in addition to standard files including the "device" symlink.
+
+The control interfaces are write-only:
+
+    /sys/class/gpio/
+
+    	"export" ... Userspace may ask the kernel to export control of
+		a GPIO to userspace by writing its number to this file.
+
+		Example:  "echo 19 > export" will create a "gpio19" node
+		for GPIO #19, if that's not requested by kernel code.
+
+    	"unexport" ... Reverses the effect of exporting to userspace.
+
+		Example:  "echo 19 > unexport" will remove a "gpio19"
+		node exported using the "export" file.
+
+GPIO signals have paths like /sys/class/gpio/gpio42/ (for GPIO #42)
+and have the following read/write attributes:
+
+    /sys/class/gpio/gpioN/
+
+	"direction" ... reads as either "in" or "out".  This value may
+		normally be written.  Writing as "out" defaults to
+		initializing the value as low.  To ensure glitch free
+		operation, values "low" and "high" may be written to
+		configure the GPIO as an output with that initial value.
+
+		Note that this attribute *will not exist* if the kernel
+		doesn't support changing the direction of a GPIO, or
+		it was exported by kernel code that didn't explicitly
+		allow userspace to reconfigure this GPIO's direction.
+
+	"value" ... reads as either 0 (low) or 1 (high).  If the GPIO
+		is configured as an output, this value may be written;
+		any nonzero value is treated as high.
+
+		If the pin can be configured as interrupt-generating interrupt
+		and if it has been configured to generate interrupts (see the
+		description of "edge"), you can poll(2) on that file and
+		poll(2) will return whenever the interrupt was triggered. If
+		you use poll(2), set the events POLLPRI. If you use select(2),
+		set the file descriptor in exceptfds. After poll(2) returns,
+		either lseek(2) to the beginning of the sysfs file and read the
+		new value or close the file and re-open it to read the value.
+
+	"edge" ... reads as either "none", "rising", "falling", or
+		"both". Write these strings to select the signal edge(s)
+		that will make poll(2) on the "value" file return.
+
+		This file exists only if the pin can be configured as an
+		interrupt generating input pin.
+
+	"active_low" ... reads as either 0 (false) or 1 (true).  Write
+		any nonzero value to invert the value attribute both
+		for reading and writing.  Existing and subsequent
+		poll(2) support configuration via the edge attribute
+		for "rising" and "falling" edges will follow this
+		setting.
+
+GPIO controllers have paths like /sys/class/gpio/gpiochip42/ (for the
+controller implementing GPIOs starting at #42) and have the following
+read-only attributes:
+
+    /sys/class/gpio/gpiochipN/
+
+    	"base" ... same as N, the first GPIO managed by this chip
+
+    	"label" ... provided for diagnostics (not always unique)
+
+    	"ngpio" ... how many GPIOs this manges (N to N + ngpio - 1)
+
+Board documentation should in most cases cover what GPIOs are used for
+what purposes.  However, those numbers are not always stable; GPIOs on
+a daughtercard might be different depending on the base board being used,
+or other cards in the stack.  In such cases, you may need to use the
+gpiochip nodes (possibly in conjunction with schematics) to determine
+the correct GPIO number to use for a given signal.
+
+
+Exporting from Kernel code
+--------------------------
+Kernel code can explicitly manage exports of GPIOs which have already been
+requested using gpio_request()::
+
+	/* export the GPIO to userspace */
+	int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool direction_may_change);
+
+	/* reverse gpio_export() */
+	void gpio_unexport();
+
+	/* create a sysfs link to an exported GPIO node */
+	int gpio_export_link(struct device *dev, const char *name,
+		unsigned gpio)
+
+After a kernel driver requests a GPIO, it may only be made available in
+the sysfs interface by gpio_export().  The driver can control whether the
+signal direction may change.  This helps drivers prevent userspace code
+from accidentally clobbering important system state.
+
+This explicit exporting can help with debugging (by making some kinds
+of experiments easier), or can provide an always-there interface that's
+suitable for documenting as part of a board support package.
+
+After the GPIO has been exported, gpio_export_link() allows creating
+symlinks from elsewhere in sysfs to the GPIO sysfs node.  Drivers can
+use this to provide the interface under their own device in sysfs with
+a descriptive name.
+
+
+API Reference
+=============
+
+The functions listed in this section are deprecated. The GPIO descriptor based
+API should be used in new code.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-legacy.c
+   :export:
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+=========================
+Using GPIO Lines in Linux
+=========================
+
+The Linux kernel exists to abstract and present hardware to users. GPIO lines
+as such are normally not user facing abstractions. The most obvious, natural
+and preferred way to use GPIO lines is to let kernel hardware drivers deal
+with them.
+
+For examples of already existing generic drivers that will also be good
+examples for any other kernel drivers you want to author, refer to
+Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst
+
+For any kind of mass produced system you want to support, such as servers,
+laptops, phones, tablets, routers, and any consumer or office or business goods
+using appropriate kernel drivers is paramount. Submit your code for inclusion
+in the upstream Linux kernel when you feel it is mature enough and you will get
+help to refine it, see Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.
+
+In Linux GPIO lines also have a userspace ABI.
+
+The userspace ABI is intended for one-off deployments. Examples are prototypes,
+factory lines, maker community projects, workshop specimen, production tools,
+industrial automation, PLC-type use cases, door controllers, in short a piece
+of specialized equipment that is not produced by the numbers, requiring
+operators to have a deep knowledge of the equipment and knows about the
+software-hardware interface to be set up. They should not have a natural fit
+to any existing kernel subsystem and not be a good fit for an operating system,
+because of not being reusable or abstract enough, or involving a lot of non
+computer hardware related policy.
+
+Applications that have a good reason to use the industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem
+from userspace will likely be a good fit for using GPIO lines from userspace as
+well.
+
+Do not under any circumstances abuse the GPIO userspace ABI to cut corners in
+any product development projects. If you use it for prototyping, then do not
+productify the prototype: rewrite it using proper kernel drivers. Do not under
+any circumstances deploy any uniform products using GPIO from userspace.
+
+The userspace ABI is a character device for each GPIO hardware unit (GPIO chip).
+These devices will appear on the system as ``/dev/gpiochip0`` thru
+``/dev/gpiochipN``. Examples of how to directly use the userspace ABI can be
+found in the kernel tree ``tools/gpio`` subdirectory.
+
+For structured and managed applications, we recommend that you make use of the
+libgpiod_ library. This provides helper abstractions, command line utilities
+and arbitration for multiple simultaneous consumers on the same GPIO chip.
+
+.. _libgpiod: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/