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gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator

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GPIO controllers are exported to userspace using /dev/gpiochip*
character devices.  Access control to these devices is provided by
standard UNIX file system permissions, on an all-or-nothing basis:
either a GPIO controller is accessible for a user, or it is not.
Currently no mechanism exists to control access to individual GPIOs.

Hence add a GPIO driver to aggregate existing GPIOs, and expose them as
a new gpiochip.

This supports the following use cases:
  - Aggregating GPIOs using Sysfs
    This is useful for implementing access control, and assigning a set
    of GPIOs to a specific user or virtual machine.
  - Generic GPIO Driver
    This is useful for industrial control, where it can provide
    userspace access to a simple GPIO-operated device described in DT,
    cfr. e.g. spidev for SPI-operated devices.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511145257.22970-5-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven 2020-05-11 16:52:55 +02:00 • committed by Linus Walleij
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