From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> There's some documentation for gpio-mockup's debugfs interface in the driver's source but it's not much. Add proper documentation for this testing module. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- .../admin-guide/gpio/gpio-mockup.rst | 87 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 87 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-mockup.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-mockup.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-mockup.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1d452ee55f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-mockup.rst @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +GPIO Testing Driver +=================== + +The GPIO Testing Driver (gpio-mockup) provides a way to create simulated GPIO +chips for testing purposes. There are two ways of configuring the chips exposed +by the module. The lines can be accessed using the standard GPIO character +device interface as well as manipulated using the dedicated debugfs directory +structure. + +Creating simulated chips using debugfs +-------------------------------------- + +When the gpio-mockup module is loaded (or builtin) it creates its own directory +in debugfs. Assuming debugfs is mounted at /sys/kernel/debug/, the directory +will be located at /sys/kernel/debug/gpio-mockup/. Inside this directory there +are two attributes: new_device and delete_device. + +New chips can be created by writing a single line containing a number of +options to "new_device". For example: + +.. code-block:: sh + + $ echo "label=my-mockup num_lines=4 named_lines" > /sys/kernel/debug/gpio-mockup/new_device + +Supported options: + + num_lines=<num_lines> - number of GPIO lines to expose + + label=<label> - label of the dummy chip + + named_lines - defines whether dummy lines should be named, the names are + of the form X-Y where X is the chip's label and Y is the + line's offset + +Note: only num_lines is mandatory. + +Chips can be dynamically removed by writing the chip's label to +"delete_device". For example: + +.. code-block:: sh + + echo "gpio-mockup.0" > /sys/kernel/debug/gpio-mockup/delete_device + +Creating simulated chips using module params +-------------------------------------------- + +Note: this is an older, now deprecated method kept for backward compatibility +for user-space tools. + +When loading the gpio-mockup driver a number of parameters can be passed to the +module. + + gpio_mockup_ranges + + This parameter takes an argument in the form of an array of integer + pairs. Each pair defines the base GPIO number (if any) and the number + of lines exposed by the chip. If the base GPIO is -1, the gpiolib + will assign it automatically. + + Example: gpio_mockup_ranges=-1,8,-1,16,405,4 + + The line above creates three chips. The first one will expose 8 lines, + the second 16 and the third 4. The base GPIO for the third chip is set + to 405 while for two first chips it will be assigned automatically. + + gpio_named_lines + + This parameter doesn't take any arguments. It lets the driver know that + GPIO lines exposed by it should be named. + + The name format is: gpio-mockup-X-Y where X is the letter associated + with the mockup chip and Y is the line offset. + +Manipulating simulated lines +---------------------------- + +Each mockup chip creates its own subdirectory in /sys/kernel/debug/gpio-mockup/. +The directory is named after the chip's label. A symlink is also created, named +after the chip's name, which points to the label directory. + +Inside each subdirectory, there's a separate attribute for each GPIO line. The +name of the attribute represents the line's offset in the chip. + +Reading from a line attribute returns the current value. Writing to it (0 or 1) +changes its pull. -- 2.26.1