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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:27:43 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] New package: gpio9260
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On 10:34 Wed 08 Feb     , Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Jean-Christophe" == Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> writes:
> 
>  Jean-Christophe> On 15:13 Mon 06 Feb     , J.C. Woltz wrote:
>  >> From: "J.C. Woltz" <jwoltz@gmail.com>
>  >> 
>  >> gpio9260 is an utility used to read and set gpio states on
>  >> the at91sam9260 and at91sam9g20 CPUs
>  Jean-Christophe> why dont u use the kernel instead via sysfs
> 
> My comment as well.
> 
>  Jean-Christophe> If this need kernel modification I don't think it will
>  go mainline
> 
> It's just a glorified devmem2 (E.G. using /dev/mem). It turns out it's
> from 2004, so from before gpiolib got added to the kernel.
I read the source code of this package

it's a dangerous one, as it's play with the same register as done by the
gpiolib.

So NACK

Best Regards,
J.