Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface

[David Brownell]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Ben Nizette wrote:
> 4) Status quo.  Easy, efficient, potentially hard to discover which gpio
> you actually want.
> 
> My vote's for 1 or 4.  The first one is heavier but easier.  The last
> one will need something like the discussed file mapping ranges to gpios.

My vote is for #4 with a chip listing file.

I don't like the hacked names ... none of the other /sys/class/*/name
files on any of my systems use hacked names.  The entire motivation for
name hacking seems wrong to me, and by observation it's been rejected
for all other class names.

- Dave

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