gpiolib: document that names can contain printk format specifiers
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
index bc0c14d..fb1ecf8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/gpio.h
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@
* @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.