Specify 7-bit ASCII character encoding for GPIO names strings.
Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/115 Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- V2: - Use ASCII instead of UTF-8.
virtio-gpio.tex | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/virtio-gpio.tex b/virtio-gpio.tex index 5da16d920aa3..3c614ec97b92 100644 --- a/virtio-gpio.tex +++ b/virtio-gpio.tex @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ \subsubsection{requestq Operation: Get Line Names}\label{sec:Device Types / GPIO order of the GPIO line numbers. The names of the GPIO lines are optional and may be present only for a subset of GPIO lines. If missing, then a zero-byte must be present for the GPIO line. If present, the name string must be zero-terminated -and the name must be unique within a GPIO Device. +and the name must be unique within a GPIO Device. The names of the GPIO lines +are encoded in 7-bit ASCII.
These names of the GPIO lines should be most meaningful producer names for the system, such as name indicating the usage. For example "MMC-CD", "Red LED Vdd"