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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	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: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:04:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804291804.19518.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209511772.311.55.camel@moss.renham>

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Ben Nizette wrote:
> 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
>                 :
>                 :
> 

Or maybe:

  /sys/class/gpio
	/gpiochip-X			<-- range X..(X+ngpio)
		/device			<-- symlink, if it's known
		/ngpio
		/label
		/start			<-- maybe; start == X

with the gpio-N links probably going where you showed.  That'd be
best in terms of Purity Of Essence.

- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30  1:04 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       ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] " Ben Nizette
2008-05-19 22:39       ` 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 [this message]
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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