Internal support code inside the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA GPU driver that handles the GPIO pins exposed by NVIDIA graphics chips. These pins are used on the card itself for things like fan control, monitoring, and display hot-plug detection, not as a general-purpose driver bound to hardware.
This is not actually a standalone driver directory; it is an internal subcomponent of the Nouveau GPU driver's NVKM core, providing GPIO plumbing used by other parts of Nouveau. It lives or dies with Nouveau as a whole and should not be evaluated for removal on its own.
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Not a driver directory: internal NVKM GPIO subdevice support code within nouveau, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.