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gpio: mark unsafe gpio_chip manipulators as deprecated
We still have some functions that return the address of the GPIO chip associated with the GPIO device. This is dangerous and the users should find a better solution. Let's add appropriate comments to the kernel docs. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(desc_to_gpio);
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/**
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* gpiod_to_chip - Return the GPIO chip to which a GPIO descriptor belongs
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* @desc: descriptor to return the chip of
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*
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* *DEPRECATED*
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* This function is unsafe and should not be used. Using the chip address
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* without taking the SRCU read lock may result in dereferencing a dangling
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* pointer.
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*/
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struct gpio_chip *gpiod_to_chip(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
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{
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@@ -275,6 +280,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(gpio_device_get_label);
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* Returns:
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* Address of the GPIO chip backing this device.
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*
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* *DEPRECATED*
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* Until we can get rid of all non-driver users of struct gpio_chip, we must
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* provide a way of retrieving the pointer to it from struct gpio_device. This
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* is *NOT* safe as the GPIO API is considered to be hot-unpluggable and the
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