On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowi...@linaro.org> wrote:
> GPIO signaled events is quite new thing in Linux kernel. > AFAIK, there are not many board which can take advantage of it. > However, GPIO events are very useful feature during work on ACPI > subsystems. Overall this seems like a pretty nice debug feature. > This commit emulates GPIO h/w behaviour and consists on read/write > operation to debugfs file. GPIO device instance is still required in DSDT > table along with _AEI resources and event methods. > > Reading from file provides pin to GPIO device map e.g. : > $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event > GPIO device name: /__SB.GPI0 > Available GPIO pin map: > /__SB.GPI0 <-> pin 0x100 > > Based on that, user can trigger method corresponding to device pin number: > $ echo "/__SB.GPI0 0x100" > /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event I need input from Rafael and Mika as to whether this is a good interface. It seems a bit confusing for me: why do you have to extract a number from one file and then insert the same magic number somewhere else? Yours, Linus Walleij -- 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/
