Re: [PATCH 0/6] GPIO character device skeleton

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> OK so this is it, I had no patience waiting for users to come up
> with this new ABI, and the requests for a way for userspace to
> use GPIOs properly is coming up again and again. So I created the
> basics for it, so we can then build on top of this to get things
> right. I want to get these very first things right before we go
> wild with setting/getting pin values etc.

This all makes sense to me modulo the (fairly minor) comments that have
already been made.

> We add ONE ioctl() to get information on the gpiochip. Now we can
> do this (example from ux500):

I guess a basic set/get API is going to be need to deprecate the sysfs
ABI.

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