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Software nodes allow us to represent hierarchies for device components that don't have their struct device representation yet - for instance: banks of GPIOs under a common GPIO expander. The core gpiolib core however doesn't offer any way of passing this information from the drivers. This extends struct gpio_chip with a pointer to fwnode that can be set by the driver and used to pass device properties for child nodes. This is similar to how we handle device-tree sub-nodes with CONFIG_OF_GPIO enabled. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.