Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.19-rc5] arch-neutral GPIO calls

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Nov 11 2006 - 22:23:28 EST


David Brownell wrote:

I suspect that userspace GPIO accessors should only be written once
though, and they're going to be in the "don't care" category. So
lack of such a "message compatible" GPIO call set might reasonably
hold up merging that sort of (configfs?) interface.


Yes, the userspace interface is by far the biggest issue here.

-hpa
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