Hi Benjamin, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Benjamin Henrion <zoobab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Nandor Han <nandor.han@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> This is a simple driver that provides a /sys/class/gpio >>> interface for controlling and configuring the GPIO lines. >>> It does not provide support for chip select or interrupts. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Nandor Han <nandor.han@xxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Semi Malinen <semi.malinen@xxxxxx> >> >> I almost want to make the driver depend on !GPIO_SYSFS because >> of this commit message. >> >> DO NOT USE OR ENCOURAGE THE USE OF THE GPIO SYSFS >> INTERFACE. >> >> Use the character device. > > I doubt you will be able to convince the majority of people toggling > GPIOs via a simple shell script to switch to write a complex C > program. Not to mention cross compilation and the libraries > dependencies here. > > Is there some good cli tools to access the new char device? If they > are shipped with most distros, that would reduce the pain. https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod A bit early to expect it to be shipped with all distros, though. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
