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authorGuennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>2008-04-28 13:14:46 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 19:58:34 +0400
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gpio: define gpio_is_valid()
Introduce a gpio_is_valid() predicate; use it in gpiolib. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de> [ use inline function; follow the gpio_* naming convention; work without gpiolib; all programming interfaces need docs ] Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ type of GPIO controller, and on one particular board 80-95 with an FPGA.
The numbers need not be contiguous; either of those platforms could also
use numbers 2000-2063 to identify GPIOs in a bank of I2C GPIO expanders.
+If you want to initialize a structure with an invalid GPIO number, use
+some negative number (perhaps "-EINVAL"); that will never be valid. To
+test if a number could reference a GPIO, you may use this predicate:
+
+ int gpio_is_valid(int number);
+
+A number that's not valid will be rejected by calls which may request
+or free GPIOs (see below). Other numbers may also be rejected; for
+example, a number might be valid but unused on a given board.
+
Whether a platform supports multiple GPIO controllers is currently a
platform-specific implementation issue.