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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt5
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt
index 2d730e3dd496..7498bdc00e19 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt
@@ -165,9 +165,8 @@ output-high - set the pin to output mode with high level
Arguments for parameters:
-- bias-pull-up, -down and -pin-default take as optional argument 0 to disable
- the pull, on hardware supporting it the pull strength in Ohm. bias-disable
- will also disable any active pull.
+- bias-pull-up, -down and -pin-default take as optional argument on hardware
+ supporting it the pull strength in Ohm. bias-disable will disable the pull.
- drive-strength takes as argument the target strength in mA.
diff --git a/include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h
index 10ad996afee4..48aa4ba7b089 100644
--- a/include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h
+++ b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h
@@ -41,7 +41,10 @@
* impedance to GROUND). If the argument is != 0 pull-down is enabled,
* if it is 0, pull-down is total, i.e. the pin is connected to GROUND.
* @PIN_CONFIG_BIAS_PULL_PIN_DEFAULT: the pin will be pulled up or down based
- * on embedded knowledge of the controller, like current mux function.
+ * on embedded knowledge of the controller hardware, like current mux
+ * function. The pull direction and possibly strength too will normally
+ * be decided completely inside the hardware block and not be readable
+ * from the kernel side.
* If the argument is != 0 pull up/down is enabled, if it is 0, the
* configuration is ignored. The proper way to disable it is to use
* @PIN_CONFIG_BIAS_DISABLE.