Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface

[Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:55 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Ben Nizette wrote:
> > 4) Status quo.  Easy, efficient, potentially hard to discover which gpio
> > you actually want.
> > 
> > My vote's for 1 or 4.  The first one is heavier but easier.  The last
> > one will need something like the discussed file mapping ranges to gpios.
> 
> My vote is for #4 with a chip listing file.
> 
> I don't like the hacked names ... none of the other /sys/class/*/name
> files on any of my systems use hacked names.  The entire motivation for
> name hacking seems wrong to me, and by observation it's been rejected
> for all other class names.

Right, agreed.

I guess one last option (which is made hard by chip label non-uniqueness
but I'll throw out anyway) would be

/sys/class/gpio
	/chipa
		/gpio-n
			/value
			/direction
		/control
	/chipb
		:
		:

I guess this doesn't gain much over labelling files chipname:N (and has
the same pitfalls) but does at least seem less hackish.


	--Ben.
> 
> - Dave
>