On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:39:13AM +0100, Markus Pargmann wrote: > I think we need real gpio userspace tools for such a chardev interface and not > only a library. On the one hand there are all the kernel/userspace developers > that just want to test stuff. On the other hand there are really a lot of > people that are using small embedded devices (e.g. beaglebone, raspberry pi, > ...) for really simple applications like using GPIOs to control something. I am > sure many of them are just using some really simple bash code to reach their > goals. There's already some work going on on producing tooling for the maker community which is currently working with the existing interfaces, attempting to abstract them for users to handle things like base board differences - I believe that's part of the motivation behind this work.
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