gpiolib: document that names can contain printk format specifiers

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
Cc: David Brownell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
index bc0c14da71629239ad852722da0870414b95b5a8..fb1ecf8baa90f46e84ea3d5e4a76f4045a3badeb 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ struct module;
  * @names: if set, must be an array of strings to use as alternative
  *      names for the GPIOs in this chip. Any entry in the array
  *      may be NULL if there is no alias for the GPIO, however the
- *      array must be @ngpio entries long.
+ *      array must be @ngpio entries long.  A name can include a single printk
+ *      format specifier for an unsigned int.  It is substituted by the actual
+ *      number of the gpio.
  *
  * A gpio_chip can help platforms abstract various sources of GPIOs so
  * they can all be accessed through a common programing interface.