From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
The process of converting all unauthorized users of struct gpio_chip to
using dedicated struct gpio_device function will be long so in the
meantime we must provide a way of retrieving the pointer to struct
gpio_chip from a GPIO device.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 9715bbc698e9..408f8a7753f9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -246,6 +246,24 @@ int gpio_device_get_base(struct gpio_device *gdev)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_device_get_base);
+/**
+ * gpio_device_get_chip() - Get the gpio_chip implementation of this GPIO device
+ * @gdev: GPIO device
+ *
+ * Until we can get rid of all non-driver users struct gpio_chip, we must
+ * provide a way of retrieving the pointer to it from struct gpio_device. This
+ * is *NOT* safe as the GPIO API is considered to be hot-unpluggable and the
+ * chip can dissapear at any moment (unlike reference-counted struct
+ * gpio_device).
+ *
+ * Use at your own risk.
+ */
+struct gpio_chip *gpio_device_get_chip(struct gpio_device *gdev)
+{
+ return gdev->chip;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_device_get_chip);
+
/* dynamic allocation of GPIOs, e.g. on a hotplugged device */
static int gpiochip_find_base(int ngpio)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
index 47906bc56b3d..bb9ec741bfda 100644
--- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ struct gpio_device *gpiod_to_device(struct gpio_desc *desc);
/* struct gpio_device getters */
int gpio_device_get_base(struct gpio_device *gdev);
+struct gpio_chip *gpio_device_get_chip(struct gpio_device *gdev);
#else /* CONFIG_GPIOLIB */
--
2.39.2
