@@ -219,6 +219,27 @@ struct gpio_chip *gpiod_to_chip(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiod_to_chip);
+/**
+ * gpio_device_get_chip() - Get the gpio_chip implementation of this GPIO device
+ * @gdev: GPIO device
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * Address of the GPIO chip backing this device.
+ *
+ * Until we can get rid of all non-driver users of 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)
{
@@ -770,6 +770,8 @@ struct gpio_desc *gpiochip_get_desc(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int hwnum);
struct gpio_desc *
gpio_device_get_desc(struct gpio_device *gdev, unsigned int hwnum);
+struct gpio_chip *gpio_device_get_chip(struct gpio_device *gdev);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB
/* lock/unlock as IRQ */