[PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation / ACPI: update to GPIO descriptor API

[Mika Westerberg]

Update the documentation also to reflect the fact that there are no ACPI
specific GPIO interfaces anymore but drivers should instead use the
descriptor based GPIO APIs.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt | 36 +++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
index b994bcb32b92..2a1519b87177 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
@@ -293,36 +293,13 @@ the device to the driver. For example:
 
 These GPIO numbers are controller relative and path "\\_SB.PCI0.GPI0"
 specifies the path to the controller. In order to use these GPIOs in Linux
-we need to translate them to the Linux GPIO numbers.
+we need to translate them to the corresponding Linux GPIO descriptors.
 
-In a simple case of just getting the Linux GPIO number from device
-resources one can use acpi_get_gpio_by_index() helper function. It takes
-pointer to the device and index of the GpioIo/GpioInt descriptor in the
-device resources list. For example:
+There is a standard GPIO API for that and is documented in
+Documentation/gpio.txt.
 
-	int gpio_irq, gpio_power;
-	int ret;
-
-	gpio_irq = acpi_get_gpio_by_index(dev, 1, NULL);
-	if (gpio_irq < 0)
-		/* handle error */
-
-	gpio_power = acpi_get_gpio_by_index(dev, 0, NULL);
-	if (gpio_power < 0)
-		/* handle error */
-
-	/* Now we can use the GPIO numbers */
-
-Other GpioIo parameters must be converted first by the driver to be
-suitable to the gpiolib before passing them.
-
-In case of GpioInt resource an additional call to gpio_to_irq() must be
-done before calling request_irq().
-
-Note that the above API is ACPI specific and not recommended for drivers
-that need to support non-ACPI systems. The recommended way is to use
-the descriptor based GPIO interfaces. The above example looks like this
-when converted to the GPIO desc:
+In the above example we can get the corresponding two GPIO descriptors with
+a code like this:
 
 	#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
 	...
@@ -339,4 +316,5 @@ when converted to the GPIO desc:
 
 	/* Now we can use the GPIO descriptors */
 
-See also Documentation/gpio.txt.
+There are also devm_* versions of these functions which release the
+descriptors once the device is released.
-- 
1.8.4.3

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