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From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
To: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
	openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [libgpiod PATCH] gpioget: Add --line-name to lookup GPIO line
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:21:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06b3258c44f7ce434ec917c53ea4e1967ea75768.camel@codeconstruct.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211201072902.127542-1-joel@jms.id.au>

Hi Joel,

> Systems provide line names to make using GPIOs easier for userspace.
> Use this feature to make the tools user friendly by adding the ability to
> show the state of a named line.
> 
>  $ gpioget --line-name power-chassis-good
>  1
> 
>  $ gpioget -L pcieslot-power
>  0

Awesome!

As someone who has had wasted hours of debugging the wrong GPIO lines
because of incorrect chip/offset calculations, +100 from me.

(or was that +101? I'll have to check the schematic again...)

Cheers,


Jeremy


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-01  7:29 [libgpiod PATCH] gpioget: Add --line-name to lookup GPIO line Joel Stanley
2021-12-01  8:29 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2021-12-02  4:29   ` Joel Stanley
2021-12-03  3:50     ` Zev Weiss
2021-12-03  6:20       ` Andrew Jeffery
2021-12-03 10:18         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2021-12-07  6:48           ` Joel Stanley
2021-12-02  5:21 ` Jeremy Kerr [this message]

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