From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Cc: "Daniel Glöckner" <dg@emlix.com>,
"Ben Nizette" <bn@niasdigital.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: allow poll(2) on gpio value
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:16:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907021516.17510.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <359ed6810907021437m4417d4bfhc3d49b19387dbf96@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 02 July 2009, Jani Nikula wrote:
> I'm trying to say that if you call gpio_export() to create a sysfs
> node, a subsequent poll() in user space won't work because there is no
> irq set up, and sysfs_notify_dirent() won't be called. The patch
> doesn't provide an interface for setting that up from kernel after
> gpio_export() call - it's only possible to set up edge triggering and
> sysfs notify by writing to the "edge" node from user space.
OK, now I understand. :)
Yeah, that seems fixable in followups.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-02 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 14:36 [PATCH] gpiolib: allow poll " Daniel Glöckner
2009-06-06 3:46 ` Ben Nizette
2009-06-06 3:53 ` Ben Nizette
2009-06-06 6:01 ` David Brownell
2009-06-06 6:51 ` Ben Nizette
2009-06-06 5:41 ` David Brownell
2009-06-10 12:36 ` [PATCH v2] gpiolib: allow poll(2) " Daniel Glöckner
2009-07-01 23:05 ` David Brownell
2009-07-02 0:19 ` Ben Nizette
2009-07-02 11:15 ` Jani Nikula
2009-07-02 18:57 ` David Brownell
2009-07-02 21:37 ` Jani Nikula
2009-07-02 22:16 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-07-14 19:26 ` [PATCH v3] " Daniel Glöckner
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