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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch 2.6.27-rc6] Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpio
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:51:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809120951.22570.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)

From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
For 2.6.27 ... let's make Greg happy.  :)

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio	2008-07-25 12:38:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -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)
+

                 reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 17:40 UTC|newest]

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