Source: linux Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Dear Maintainer,
Please consider enabling CONFIG_GPIO_SIM=m in the Debian kernel. gpio-sim is the modern GPIO simulator (the configfs-based successor to the deprecated gpio-mockup, which is also currently disabled in the Debian kernel). It allows creating virtual GPIO chips and driving/reading line values entirely in software, which is the standard mechanism libgpiod and related tools use for testing without hardware. Concretely it would let the gpiod-sysfs-proxy package run a real functional autopkgtest. It is also generally useful for testing libgpiod, gpiod CLI tools and any software consuming the GPIO character device. It is a small, self-contained module (drivers/gpio/gpio-sim.c) with no runtime cost unless manually loaded and depends only on CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS (already =m) and the GPIO chardev (already enabled). Thanks for considering. -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.0.12+deb14.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
