gpio: make the gpiochip a real device

GPIO chips have been around for years, but were never real devices,
instead they were piggy-backing on a parent device (such as a
platform_device or amba_device) but this was always optional.
GPIO chips could also exist without any device at all, with its
struct device *parent (ex *dev) pointer being set to null.

When sysfs was in use, a mock device would be created, with the
optional parent assigned, or just floating orphaned with NULL
as parent.

If sysfs is active, it will use this device as parent.

We now create a gpio_device struct containing a real
struct device and move the subsystem over to using that. The
list of struct gpio_chip:s is augmented to hold struct
gpio_device:s and we find gpio_chips:s by first looking up
the struct gpio_device.

The struct gpio_device is designed to stay around even if the
gpio_chip is removed, so as to satisfy users in userspace
that need a backing data structure to hold the state of the
session initiated with e.g. a character device even if there is
no physical chip anymore.

From this point on, gpiochips are devices.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
index 99ed3b00ffe9..feea2c823e47 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h
@@ -12,14 +12,39 @@
 #ifndef GPIOLIB_H
 #define GPIOLIB_H
 
+#include <linux/gpio/driver.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/cdev.h>
 
 enum of_gpio_flags;
 enum gpiod_flags;
 struct acpi_device;
 
 /**
+ * struct gpio_device - internal state container for GPIO devices
+ * @id: numerical ID number for the GPIO chip
+ * @dev: the GPIO device struct
+ * @owner: helps prevent removal of modules exporting active GPIOs
+ * @chip: pointer to the corresponding gpiochip, holding static
+ * data for this device
+ * @list: links gpio_device:s together for traversal
+ *
+ * This state container holds most of the runtime variable data
+ * for a GPIO device and can hold references and live on after the
+ * GPIO chip has been removed, if it is still being used from
+ * userspace.
+ */
+struct gpio_device {
+	int			id;
+	struct device		dev;
+	struct module		*owner;
+	struct gpio_chip	*chip;
+	struct list_head        list;
+};
+
+/**
  * struct acpi_gpio_info - ACPI GPIO specific information
  * @gpioint: if %true this GPIO is of type GpioInt otherwise type is GpioIo
  * @active_low: in case of @gpioint, the pin is active low
@@ -90,7 +115,7 @@ struct gpio_desc *of_get_named_gpiod_flags(struct device_node *np,
 struct gpio_desc *gpiochip_get_desc(struct gpio_chip *chip, u16 hwnum);
 
 extern struct spinlock gpio_lock;
-extern struct list_head gpio_chips;
+extern struct list_head gpio_devices;
 
 struct gpio_desc {
 	struct gpio_chip	*chip;