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author | Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com> | 2017-08-23 14:45:25 -0500 |
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committer | Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com> | 2017-08-23 14:45:25 -0500 |
commit | fcbb27b0ec6dcbc5a5108cb8fb19eae64593d204 (patch) | |
tree | 22962a4387943edc841c72a4e636a068c66d58fd /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio | |
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Initial import of modified Linux 2.6.28 tree
Original upstream URL:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git | branch linux-2.6.28.y
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8aab809 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +What: /sys/class/gpio/ +Date: July 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> +Description: + + As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from + userspace. GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit + "export" operation. If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by + kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later). + Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access. + + GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in + the range 0..INT_MAX. See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information. + + /sys/class/gpio + /export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace + /unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel + /gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N + /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs + /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low + /gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO + /base ... (r/o) same as N + /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique + /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1) + |