Add document about bfin-gpio when requesting a pin both as gpio and gpio interrupt. Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>tirimbino
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* File: Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-note.txt |
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* Created: $Id: bfin-gpio-note.txt 2008-11-24 16:42 grafyang $ |
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* Description: This file contains the notes in developing/using bfin-gpio. |
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* Copyright 2004-2008 Analog Devices Inc. |
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* Bugs: Enter bugs at http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ |
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1. Blackfin GPIO introduction |
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There are many GPIO pins on Blackfin. Most of these pins are muxed to |
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multi-functions. They can be configured as peripheral, or just as GPIO, |
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configured to input with interrupt enabled, or output. |
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For detailed information, please see "arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_gpio.c", |
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or the relevant HRM. |
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2. Avoiding resource conflict |
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Followed function groups are used to avoiding resource conflict, |
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- Use the pin as peripheral, |
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int peripheral_request(unsigned short per, const char *label); |
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int peripheral_request_list(const unsigned short per[], const char *label); |
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void peripheral_free(unsigned short per); |
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void peripheral_free_list(const unsigned short per[]); |
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- Use the pin as GPIO, |
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int bfin_gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label); |
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void bfin_gpio_free(unsigned gpio); |
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- Use the pin as GPIO interrupt, |
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int bfin_gpio_irq_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label); |
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void bfin_gpio_irq_free(unsigned gpio); |
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The request functions will record the function state for a certain pin, |
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the free functions will clear it's function state. |
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Once a pin is requested, it can't be requested again before it is freed by |
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previous caller, otherwise kernel will dump stacks, and the request |
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function fail. |
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These functions are wrapped by other functions, most of the users need not |
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care. |
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3. But there are some exceptions |
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- Kernel permit the identical GPIO be requested both as GPIO and GPIO |
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interrut. |
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Some drivers, like gpio-keys, need this behavior. Kernel only print out |
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warning messages like, |
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bfin-gpio: GPIO 24 is already reserved by gpio-keys: BTN0, and you are |
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configuring it as IRQ! |
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Note: Consider the case that, if there are two drivers need the |
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identical GPIO, one of them use it as GPIO, the other use it as |
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GPIO interrupt. This will really cause resource conflict. So if |
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there is any abnormal driver behavior, please check the bfin-gpio |
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warning messages. |
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- Kernel permit the identical GPIO be requested from the same driver twice. |
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