On 10/15/2012 08:07 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 21:11 Fri 12 Oct , Roland Stigge wrote: >> This patch adds sysfs support to the block GPIO API. >> >> Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <sti...@antcom.de> >> >> --- >> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio | 6 >> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 226 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >> include/asm-generic/gpio.h | 11 + >> include/linux/gpio.h | 13 ++ >> 4 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > I really don't like this sysfs we need to add a specific device with ioctl
The good thing about the current style is that you have a single value for the whole block in a single file just as for single GPIOs. You can consider it as a generalized GPIO. And I like it. :-) Thanks for considering, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
