Re: [PATCH 23/23] Documentation: gpio: add documentation for gpio-mockup

[Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 4:08 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 03:49:23PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 2:22 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 02:06:15PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > Yes it is.  Or at least until you fix all existing users so that if you
> > > do change it, no one notices it happening :)
> > >
> >
> > Then another question is: do we really want to commit to a stable ABI
> > for a module we only use for testing purposes and which doesn't
> > interact with any real hardware.
> >
> > Rewriting this module without any legacy cruft is tempting though. :)
>
> Another thought spoken loudly: maybe it can be unified with GPIO aggregator
> code? In that case it makes sense.
>

Cc'ing Geert but I don't quite see how this would make sense. :)

Also one thing I'm not sure about re configfs is the interface we use
to read values/set pull i.e. the line attributes in debugfs, do you
think configfs allows this type of attributes?

Bart