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From: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: fix typo and unclear legacy API section
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:25:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201122092548.61979-1-gnurou@gmail.com> (raw)

The "Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem" of the documentation
was unclear at best, and even included a sentence that seems to say the
opposite of what it should say about the lifetime of the return value of
the conversion functions.

Try to clarify things a bit and hopefully make that section more
readable.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
index 423492d125b9..173e4c7b037d 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
@@ -440,18 +440,20 @@ For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst
 
 Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem
 ==========================================
-Many kernel subsystems still handle GPIOs using the legacy integer-based
-interface. Although it is strongly encouraged to upgrade them to the safer
-descriptor-based API, the following two functions allow you to convert a GPIO
-descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace and vice-versa::
+Many kernel subsystems and drivers still handle GPIOs using the legacy
+integer-based interface. It is strongly recommended to update these to the new
+gpiod interface. For cases where both interfaces need to be used, the following
+two functions allow to convert a GPIO descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace
+and vice-versa::
 
 	int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
 	struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio)
 
-The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can be safely used as long as the
-GPIO descriptor has not been freed. All the same, a GPIO number passed to
-gpio_to_desc() must have been properly acquired, and usage of the returned GPIO
-descriptor is only possible after the GPIO number has been released.
+The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can safely be used as a parameter of
+the gpio\_*() functions for as long as the GPIO descriptor `desc` is not freed.
+All the same, a GPIO number passed to gpio_to_desc() must first be properly
+acquired using e.g. gpio_request_one(), and the returned GPIO descriptor is only
+considered valid until that GPIO number is released using gpio_free().
 
 Freeing a GPIO obtained by one API with the other API is forbidden and an
 unchecked error.
-- 
2.29.2


             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-22  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-22  9:25 Alexandre Courbot [this message]
2020-11-22  9:31 ` [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: fix typo and unclear legacy API section Alexandre Courbot
2020-11-22 21:48   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-12-04  8:49 ` Linus Walleij

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