On 06/10/2016 07:35 AM, Johannes Thoma wrote: > Hi, > > Am 07.06.16 um 17:19 schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen: >> >> Any new ABI needs to be documented in Documentation/ABI/... >> > I will move it there thanks for pointing that out. > >> But to take one thing ahead passing the GPIO number (or a label) from >> userspace is not really a good ABI in my opinion. The GPIO numbers should >> come from the hardware description (DTS, ACPI, board file, ...) >> > I wanted to offer the possibility to configure the device at run time. Since > it is not part of the board but a periphial device it could also be attached > while the system is running. I would like to keep this interface but will > add support for also configue it via device tree, as you suggested. The right interface for handling re-configurable logic is devicetree overlays. It allows you to describe the hardware using standard devicetree descriptions but it can be loaded and unloaded on-demand at runtime. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
