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author | Andy Shevchenko | 2023-06-05 15:54:11 +0300 |
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committer | Bartosz Golaszewski | 2023-06-13 16:49:23 +0200 |
commit | 7d0b80647f73a170dd20d18fbf01de0f770ed7c8 (patch) | |
tree | 562b12b89141fdc9f4af16bd0726cc058b228ecf /Documentation/driver-api | |
parent | 57e30e00bd5baacdf99450d69981ec9192592e3c (diff) |
gpiolib: remove unused gpio_cansleep()
There is not a single user in the entire kernel of this deprecated API,
kill it for good.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst index 9eda54811faa..b6505914791c 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy.rst @@ -165,8 +165,7 @@ Most GPIO controllers can be accessed with memory read/write instructions. Those don't need to sleep, and can safely be done from inside hard (nonthreaded) IRQ handlers and similar contexts. -Use the following calls to access such GPIOs, -for which gpio_cansleep() will always return false (see below):: +Use the following calls to access such GPIOs:: /* GPIO INPUT: return zero or nonzero */ int gpio_get_value(unsigned gpio); @@ -200,13 +199,6 @@ Some GPIO controllers must be accessed using message based busses like I2C or SPI. Commands to read or write those GPIO values require waiting to get to the head of a queue to transmit a command and get its response. This requires sleeping, which can't be done from inside IRQ handlers. - -Platforms that support this type of GPIO distinguish them from other GPIOs -by returning nonzero from this call (which requires a valid GPIO number, -which should have been previously allocated with gpio_request):: - - int gpio_cansleep(unsigned gpio); - To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined:: /* GPIO INPUT: return zero or nonzero, might sleep */ @@ -215,7 +207,6 @@ To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined:: /* GPIO OUTPUT, might sleep */ void gpio_set_value_cansleep(unsigned gpio, int value); - Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep, for example a threaded IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of spinlock-safe accessors without the cansleep() name suffix. @@ -537,7 +528,6 @@ code, which always dispatches through the gpio_chip:: #define gpio_get_value __gpio_get_value #define gpio_set_value __gpio_set_value - #define gpio_cansleep __gpio_cansleep Fancier implementations could instead define those as inline functions with logic optimizing access to specific SOC-based GPIOs. For example, if the |