Hi Linux,
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 04:51:56PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The first is, how is userspace supposed to find the correct offset for a
> > GPIO pin.
>
> The sysfs interface to GPIO is *NOT* *GOOD* this is universally
> agreed upon.
>
> This needs someone to step in and provide a replacement, my preferred
> mechanism would be a /dev/gpiochip0/... hierarchy using char devices.
I really like the ability to control GPIOs from shell, both interactively and
scripted. I find it useful for quick hardware level debugging, and for boot
time scripting (mainly in initramfs). Do you intend to preserve this
capability in the future? Will I need a special utility (or Busybox applet) to
do this with char device ioctl?
baruch
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