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

[Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:09 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> > Simple sysfs interface for GPIOs.
> >
> >    /sys/class/gpio
> >        /gpio-N ... for each exported GPIO #N
> 
> I liked it better they way I had it, "label:N".
> 
> When you have multiple GPIO sources, it's a lot easier to see where they are
> comming from if they use the chip label.  Especially if support for dynamic
> allocation of gpio numbers is written.
> 
> 
> > 	    /value ... always readable, writes fail except for output GPIOs
> > 	    /direction ... writable as: in, out (default low), high, low
> 
> You took away the code for the label field?  That was one of the features of
> my code that Ben Nizette mentioned as an advantage over a char-device
> interface.

If all gpios are exported read only by default then keeping the label
either in the folder naming or as a file is certainly useful to identify
what you actually want to talk to.  If you're debugging a driver or
you've already manually exported a gpio then I'd assume you already know
pretty much all you need to know about that pin.

	--Ben.