gpiolib: document that names can contain printk format specifiers

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
index bc0c14da7162..fb1ecf8baa90 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ struct module;
  * @names: if set, must be an array of strings to use as alternative
  *      names for the GPIOs in this chip. Any entry in the array
  *      may be NULL if there is no alias for the GPIO, however the
- *      array must be @ngpio entries long.
+ *      array must be @ngpio entries long.  A name can include a single printk
+ *      format specifier for an unsigned int.  It is substituted by the actual
+ *      number of the gpio.
  *
  * A gpio_chip can help platforms abstract various sources of GPIOs so
  * they can all be accessed through a common programing interface.