Core changes:
- The big core change is the updated (v2) userspace character
device API. This corrects badly designed 64-bit alignment around
the line events. We also add the debounce request feature.
This echoes the often quotes passage from Frederick Brooks
"The mythical man-month" to always throw one away, which we
have seen before in things such as V4L2. So we put in a new
one and deprecate and obsolete the old one.
- All example tools in tools/gpio/* are migrated to the new API
to set a good example. The libgpiod userspace library has been
augmented to use this new API pretty much from day 1.
- Some misc API hardening by using strn* function calls has been
added as well.
- Use the simpler IDA interface for GPIO chip instance enumeration.
- Add device core function for counting string arrays in
device properties.
- Provide a generic library function kfree_strarray() that can
be used throughout the kernel.
Driver enhancements:
- The DesignWare dwapb-gpio driver has been enhanced and now
uses the IRQ handling in the gpiolib core.
- The mockup and aggregator drivers have seen some substantial
code clean-up and now use more of the core kernel
inftrastructure.
- Misc cleanups using dev_err_probe().
- The MXC drivers (Freescale/NXP) can now be built modularized,
which makes modularized GKI Android kernels happy.
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Merge tag 'gpio-v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
"This time very little driver changes but lots of core changes.
We have some interesting cooperative work for ARM and Intel alike,
making the GPIO subsystem more and more suitable for industrial
systems and the like, in addition to the in-kernel users.
We touch driver core (device properties) and lib/* by adding one
simple string array free function, these are authored by Andy
Shevchenko who is a well known and recognized core helpers maintainers
so this should be fine.
We also see some Android GKI-related modularization in the MXC
drivers.
Core changes:
- The big core change is the updated (v2) userspace character device
API.
This corrects badly designed 64-bit alignment around the line
events. We also add the debounce request feature. This echoes the
often quotes passage from Frederick Brooks "The mythical man-month"
to always throw one away, which we have seen before in things such
as V4L2. So we put in a new one and deprecate and obsolete the old
one.
- All example tools in tools/gpio/* are migrated to the new API to
set a good example. The libgpiod userspace library has been
augmented to use this new API pretty much from day 1.
- Some misc API hardening by using strn* function calls has been
added as well.
- Use the simpler IDA interface for GPIO chip instance enumeration.
- Add device core function for counting string arrays in device
properties.
- Provide a generic library function kfree_strarray() that can be
used throughout the kernel.
Driver enhancements:
- The DesignWare dwapb-gpio driver has been enhanced and now uses the
IRQ handling in the gpiolib core.
- The mockup and aggregator drivers have seen some substantial code
clean-up and now use more of the core kernel inftrastructure.
- Misc cleanups using dev_err_probe().
- The MXC drivers (Freescale/NXP) can now be built modularized, which
makes modularized GKI Android kernels happy"
* tag 'gpio-v5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (73 commits)
gpiolib: Update header block in gpiolib-cdev.h
gpiolib: cdev: switch from kstrdup() to kstrndup()
docs: gpio: add a new document to its index.rst
gpio: pca953x: Add support for the NXP PCAL9554B/C
tools: gpio: add debounce support to gpio-event-mon
tools: gpio: add multi-line monitoring to gpio-event-mon
tools: gpio: port gpio-event-mon to v2 uAPI
tools: gpio: port gpio-hammer to v2 uAPI
tools: gpio: rename nlines to num_lines
tools: gpio: port gpio-watch to v2 uAPI
tools: gpio: port lsgpio to v2 uAPI
gpio: uapi: document uAPI v1 as deprecated
gpiolib: cdev: support setting debounce
gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_VALUES_IOCTL
gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_CONFIG_IOCTL
gpiolib: cdev: support edge detection for uAPI v2
gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL
gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL
gpiolib: add build option for CDEV v1 ABI
gpiolib: make cdev a build option
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