Input: generic driver for rotary encoders on GPIOs

This patch adds a generic driver for rotary encoders connected to GPIO
pins of a system. It relies on gpiolib and generic hardware irqs. The
documentation that also comes with this patch explains the concept and
how to use the driver.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
diff --git a/include/linux/rotary_encoder.h b/include/linux/rotary_encoder.h
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/include/linux/rotary_encoder.h
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+#ifndef __ROTARY_ENCODER_H__
+#define __ROTARY_ENCODER_H__
+
+struct rotary_encoder_platform_data {
+	unsigned int steps;
+	unsigned int axis;
+	unsigned int gpio_a;
+	unsigned int gpio_b;
+	unsigned int inverted_a;
+	unsigned int inverted_b;
+};
+
+#endif /* __ROTARY_ENCODER_H__ */