gpiochip_reserve()

Add a new function gpiochip_reserve() to reserve ranges of gpios that platform
code has pre-allocated.  That is, this marks gpio numbers which will be
claimed by drivers that haven't yet been loaded, and thus are not available
for dynamic gpio number allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded __must_check]
[david-b@pacbell.net: don't export gpiochip_reserve (section fix)]
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
index 464c5b334dc2..ecf675a59d21 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct gpio_chip {
 
 extern const char *gpiochip_is_requested(struct gpio_chip *chip,
                         unsigned offset);
+extern int __init __must_check gpiochip_reserve(int start, int ngpio);
 
 /* add/remove chips */
 extern int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip);