Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: Add Tegra186 support

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> By the way, I tested this using Bartosz Gołaszewski's excellent libgpiod
> that provides a really nice set of userspace utilities to detect and
> manipulate GPIO chips:
>
>         https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod
>
> So for userspace access to the Tegra GPIOs we can now run something like
> this in a shell script:
>
>         #!/bin/sh
>         gpio=$(gpiofind PCC.00)
>         gpioget $gpio
>
> There's a bunch of other features that the library supports. I'm glad we
> finally have a standard set of tools to deal with GPIOs in userspace.

I share your high appraisal of this library, Bartosz work is really important
for consolidating this mess to something we can contain.

> It
> seems the internet is full of libraries that deal with the GPIO sysfs
> interface,

I do not advocate Internet censorship, but ... ;)

The world should be purged from them all.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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