Update the GPIO docs to describe the idiom whereby open drain signals are
emulated by toggling the GPIO direction.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It's been pointed out that output GPIOs should have an initial value, to
avoid signal glitching ...  among other things, it can be some time before
a driver is ready.  This patch corrects that oversight, fixing

 - documentation
 - platforms supporting the GPIO interface
 - users of that call (just one for now, others are pending)

There's only one user of this call for now since most platforms are still
using non-generic GPIO setup code, which in most cases already couples the
initial value with its "set output mode" request.

Note that most platforms are clear about the hardware letting the output
value be set before the pin direction is changed, but the s3c241x docs are
vague on that topic ...  so those chips might not avoid the glitches.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NAndrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Acked-by: NMilan Svoboda <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com>
Acked-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Small updates to the GPIO documentation, addressing feedback and
fixing a few spelling errors.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This defines a simple and minimalist programming interface for GPIO APIs:

  - Documentation/gpio.txt ... describes things (read it)

  - include/asm-arm/gpio.h ... defines the ARM hook, which just punts
    to <asm/arch/gpio.h> for any implementation

  - include/asm-generic/gpio.h ... implement "can sleep" variants as calling
    the normal ones, for systems that don't handle i2c expanders.

The immediate need for such a cross-architecture API convention is to support
drivers that work the same on AT91 ARM and AVR32 AP7000 chips, which embed many
of the same controllers but have different CPUs.  However, several other users
have been reported, including a driver for a hardware watchdog chip and some
handhelds.org multi-CPU button drivers.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>