gpio: add a data pointer to gpio_chip

This adds a void * pointer to gpio_chip so that driver can
assign and retrieve some states. This is done to get rid of
container_of() calls for gpio_chips embedded inside state
containers, so we can remove the need to have the gpio_chip
or later (planned) struct gpio_device be dynamically allocated
at registration time, so that its struct device can be properly
reference counted and not bound to its parent device (e.g.
a platform_device) but instead live on after unregistration
if it is opened by e.g. a char device or sysfs.

The data is added with the new function gpiochip_add_data()
and for compatibility we add static inline wrapper function
gpiochip_add() that will call gpiochip_add_data() with
NULL as argument. The latter will be removed once we have
exorcised gpiochip_add() from the kernel.

gpiochip_get_data() is added as a static inline accessor
for drivers to quickly get their data out.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index ca6630207c66..905408b8d54b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int gpiochip_set_desc_names(struct gpio_chip *gc)
 }
 
 /**
- * gpiochip_add() - register a gpio_chip
+ * gpiochip_add_data() - register a gpio_chip
  * @chip: the chip to register, with chip->base initialized
  * Context: potentially before irqs will work
  *
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static int gpiochip_set_desc_names(struct gpio_chip *gc)
  * because the chip->base is invalid or already associated with a
  * different chip.  Otherwise it returns zero as a success code.
  *
- * When gpiochip_add() is called very early during boot, so that GPIOs
+ * When gpiochip_add_data() is called very early during boot, so that GPIOs
  * can be freely used, the chip->parent device must be registered before
  * the gpio framework's arch_initcall().  Otherwise sysfs initialization
  * for GPIOs will fail rudely.
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static int gpiochip_set_desc_names(struct gpio_chip *gc)
  * If chip->base is negative, this requests dynamic assignment of
  * a range of valid GPIOs.
  */
-int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
+int gpiochip_add_data(struct gpio_chip *chip, void *data)
 {
 	unsigned long	flags;
 	int		status = 0;
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
 	if (!descs)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	chip->data = data;
+
 	if (chip->ngpio == 0) {
 		chip_err(chip, "tried to insert a GPIO chip with zero lines\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -415,7 +417,7 @@ err_free_descs:
 		chip->label ? : "generic");
 	return status;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_add);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_add_data);
 
 /**
  * gpiochip_remove() - unregister a gpio_chip