On 20/07/20 10:17, Linus Walleij wrote: > IIUC Rodolfo's idea is to provide this with a DT compatible. > The use case will be industrial automation-ish tasks from userspace. > > Currently the only mechanism we have in the device tree to > assign a use for a line is the "gpio-line-names" property, > which creates a name that is reported upward to the character > device. > > Rodolfo's patch is for scripting use cases, assigning some lines > for some cases to be handled by scripts, not the character device. > > What I am a bit worried about is if this would be a Linuxism, as DT > should be OS neutral. Hello Linus, I'm currently using my solution for GPIOs management as input or output lines described in the DT on several systems. Are you re-thinking about this topic? Can we go further for inclusion or should I continue doing out-of-tree? :( Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: giometti@xxxxxxxxxxxx Linux Device Driver giometti@xxxxxxxx Embedded Systems phone: +39 349 2432127 UNIX programming skype: rodolfo.giometti
