Re: libgpiod: Using the -a option in v1.6.x

[Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 2:44 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Bartosz,
>
> On master, there is a useful -a option for gpioget:
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> --as-is - leave the line direction unchanged, not forced to input
>
> I am running libgpiod v1.6.3, which does not contain such an option.
>
> Backporting this feature to v1.6.x did not seem trivial.
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> Would you have any suggestions as to how to add this option to v1.6.x?

Nevermind. I changed the libgpiod OE recipe to use master instead of
1.6.3 and now I can read
the output correctly using the -a option:

# gpioget --version
gpioget (libgpiod) v2.0-devel
Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Bartosz Golaszewski
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

# gpioset --hold-period 20ms -t0 -c 2 16=1
# gpioget --numeric -a -c 2 16
1