From 828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 16:52:55 +0200 Subject: gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator GPIO controllers are exported to userspace using /dev/gpiochip* character devices. Access control to these devices is provided by standard UNIX file system permissions, on an all-or-nothing basis: either a GPIO controller is accessible for a user, or it is not. Currently no mechanism exists to control access to individual GPIOs. Hence add a GPIO driver to aggregate existing GPIOs, and expose them as a new gpiochip. This supports the following use cases: - Aggregating GPIOs using Sysfs This is useful for implementing access control, and assigning a set of GPIOs to a specific user or virtual machine. - Generic GPIO Driver This is useful for industrial control, where it can provide userspace access to a simple GPIO-operated device described in DT, cfr. e.g. spidev for SPI-operated devices. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Tested-by: Eugeniu Rosca Reviewed-by: Eugeniu Rosca Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511145257.22970-5-geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij --- drivers/gpio/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/gpio/Makefile') diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Makefile b/drivers/gpio/Makefile index b2cfc21a97f3..65bf3940e33c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/Makefile +++ b/drivers/gpio/Makefile @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_74XX_MMIO) += gpio-74xx-mmio.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ADNP) += gpio-adnp.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ADP5520) += gpio-adp5520.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ADP5588) += gpio-adp5588.o +obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_AGGREGATOR) += gpio-aggregator.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ALTERA_A10SR) += gpio-altera-a10sr.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ALTERA) += gpio-altera.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_AMD8111) += gpio-amd8111.o -- cgit 1.4.1