On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 08:24:03AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > Furthermore I am thinking if it would be useful if more than one process > could open a gpio device, as a long as they use different pins, e.g. one > process controlls a stepper motor using some of the pins while another > process drives some LEDs.
Perhaps something like this? gpioctl gpio0 attach gpio 0 0xf (attaches gpio1 on pins 0..3 of gpio0) gpioctl gpio0 attach gpio 4 0xf (attaches gpio2 on pins 4..7 of gpio0) gpioctl gpio0 attach gpio 1 0xc (fails w/ EBUSY) gpioctl gpio0 attach gpio 3 0x7 (fails w/ EBUSY) Then the stepper-motor process operates exclusively on /dev/gpio1, and the LED process exclusively on /dev/gpio2. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies dyo...@ojctech.com Urbana, IL * (217) 344-0444 x24