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Documentation: gpio: Input mode is not true Hi-Z

The true Hi-Z (a.k.a. high impedance) mode is when pin is completely
disconnected from the chip. This includes input buffer as well.
Nevertheless, some hardware may not support that mode and they are
considering input only as Hi-Z, but more precisely it is an equivalent
to that, in electronics it's basically "an antenna mode".

Sligthly correct documentation to take the above into consideration.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

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Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst
··· 218 218 use a trick: when a line is set as output, if the line is flagged as open 219 219 drain, and the IN output value is low, it will be driven low as usual. But 220 220 if the IN output value is set to high, it will instead *NOT* be driven high, 221 - instead it will be switched to input, as input mode is high impedance, thus 222 - achieving an "open drain emulation" of sorts: electrically the behaviour will 223 - be identical, with the exception of possible hardware glitches when switching 224 - the mode of the line. 221 + instead it will be switched to input, as input mode is an equivalent to 222 + high impedance, thus achieving an "open drain emulation" of sorts: electrically 223 + the behaviour will be identical, with the exception of possible hardware glitches 224 + when switching the mode of the line. 225 225 226 226 For open source configuration the same principle is used, just that instead 227 227 of actively driving the line low, it is set to input.