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, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
index 82fda487453f..f3f1dbd43c9b 100644
--- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_GPIO_DRIVER_H
 #define __LINUX_GPIO_DRIVER_H
 
+#include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
@@ -10,22 +11,22 @@
 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
 #include <linux/kconfig.h>
 
-struct device;
 struct gpio_desc;
 struct of_phandle_args;
 struct device_node;
 struct seq_file;
+struct gpio_device;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB
 
 /**
  * struct gpio_chip - abstract a GPIO controller
  * @label: for diagnostics
+ * @gpiodev: the internal state holder, opaque struct
  * @parent: optional parent device providing the GPIOs
  * @cdev: class device used by sysfs interface (may be NULL)
  * @owner: helps prevent removal of modules exporting active GPIOs
  * @data: per-instance data assigned by the driver
- * @list: links gpio_chips together for traversal
  * @request: optional hook for chip-specific activation, such as
  *	enabling module power and clock; may sleep
  * @free: optional hook for chip-specific deactivation, such as
@@ -107,11 +108,11 @@ struct seq_file;
  */
 struct gpio_chip {
 	const char		*label;
+	struct gpio_device	*gpiodev;
 	struct device		*parent;
 	struct device		*cdev;
 	struct module		*owner;
 	void			*data;
-	struct list_head        list;
 
 	int			(*request)(struct gpio_chip *chip,
 						unsigned offset);