linux/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/gpio-get-chipinfo-ioctl.rst
Kent Gibson 32a0a0da53 Documentation: gpio: add chardev userspace API documentation
Add documentation for the GPIO character device userspace API.

Added to the userspace-api book, but also provide a link from the
admin-guide book, as historically the GPIO documentation has been
there.

Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
2024-01-22 10:47:14 +01:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. _GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL:
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GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL
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Name
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GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL - Get the publicly available information for a chip.
Synopsis
========
.. c:macro:: GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL
``int ioctl(int chip_fd, GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL, struct gpiochip_info *info)``
Arguments
=========
``chip_fd``
The file descriptor of the GPIO character device returned by `open()`.
``info``
The :c:type:`chip_info<gpiochip_info>` to be populated.
Description
===========
Gets the publicly available information for a particular GPIO chip.
Return Value
============
On success 0 and ``info`` is populated with the chip info.
On error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set appropriately.
Common error codes are described in error-codes.rst.