From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> There are users in the kernel who need to retrieve the address of the struct device backing the GPIO device. Currently they needlessly poke in the internals of GPIOLIB. Add a dedicated getter function. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/linux/gpio/driver.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 191f9c87b4d0..ca2b5b424284 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -1169,6 +1169,23 @@ void gpio_device_put(struct gpio_device *gdev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_device_put); +/** + * gpio_device_to_device() - Retrieve the address of the underlying struct + * device. + * @gdev: GPIO device for which to return the address. + * + * This does not increase the reference count of the GPIO device nor the + * underlying struct device. + * + * Returns: + * Address of struct device backing this GPIO device. + */ +struct device *gpio_device_to_device(struct gpio_device *gdev) +{ + return &gdev->dev; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_device_to_device); + #ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP /* diff --git a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h index f8ad7f40100c..0484bf90b25d 100644 --- a/include/linux/gpio/driver.h +++ b/include/linux/gpio/driver.h @@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ void gpio_device_put(struct gpio_device *gdev); DEFINE_FREE(gpio_device_put, struct gpio_device *, if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) gpio_device_put(_T)); +struct device *gpio_device_to_device(struct gpio_device *gdev); + bool gpiochip_line_is_irq(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int offset); int gpiochip_reqres_irq(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int offset); void gpiochip_relres_irq(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int offset); -- 2.39.2