Re: [PATCH V2 1/4] i2c: Add irq_gpio field to struct i2c_client.

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Sep 01 2011 - 13:38:11 EST


On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:52:41AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Some devices use a single pin as both an IRQ and a GPIO. In that case,
> irq_gpio is the GPIO ID for that pin. Not all drivers use this feature.
> Where they do, and the use of this feature is optional, and the system
> wishes to disable this feature, this field must be explicitly set to a
> defined invalid GPIO ID, such as -1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

SPI could also benefit from this.
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