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From: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>,
	hartleys <hartleys@visionengravers.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 14:55:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211086536.3892.26.camel@moss.renham> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805171514.07619.david-b@pacbell.net>


On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:14 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > What about mkdir gpio-N to export it?
> 
> Ugh.  That would create way more complication than I want
> to see here.  I thought about that early on, and decided
> that was Not The Way To Go.

I have a userspace gpio interface which uses /dev and configfs.  The
configfs side was really nice (and used mkdir, as configfs does) but I
wasn't a fan of needing udev..  On balance, I like the all-in-one sysfs
way more.

> 
> - Dave
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-18  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 19:39 [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface David Brownell
2008-04-28 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-28 23:28   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  2:54     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-29  3:42       ` Greg KH
2008-04-29 18:45         ` David Brownell
2008-04-29 19:09           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 20:36   ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-17 22:14     ` David Brownell
2008-05-18  0:36       ` [patch 2.6.26-rc2-git] " David Brownell
2008-05-20  7:17         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-18  4:55       ` Ben Nizette [this message]
2008-05-19 22:39       ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] " Pavel Machek
2008-05-20  1:26         ` David Brownell
2008-05-20  8:02           ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-28 23:01 ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29  0:44   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  1:58     ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29  3:44       ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  4:47         ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29 21:28           ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  6:17         ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 22:39           ` David Brownell
2008-04-28 23:09 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29  0:45   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  5:48     ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 12:35       ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29 18:15         ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 21:56           ` David Brownell
2008-04-30  0:49             ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 17:49               ` David Brownell
2008-04-29 21:55         ` David Brownell
2008-04-29 23:29           ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30  1:04             ` David Brownell
2008-04-30  2:08               ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30  3:13                 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 10:33                   ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30 17:42                 ` David Brownell
2008-04-30 21:34                   ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git v2] " David Brownell
2008-04-30 22:47                     ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 23:14                       ` Ben Nizette
2008-05-01  2:12                         ` David Brownell
2008-05-01  2:08                       ` David Brownell
2008-05-01  3:41                         ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-01  4:35                           ` David Brownell
2008-05-01 21:16                             ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-03  2:58                               ` David Brownell
2008-05-03  3:05                               ` David Brownell
2008-04-30 23:28                     ` Ben Nizette
2008-05-01 21:40                       ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  0:47   ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] " Ben Nizette

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