gpio: sysfs interface

2008-07-25T17:53:30+00:00

This adds a simple sysfs interface for GPIOs.

    /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 .. N+(ngpio - 1)

GPIOs claimed by kernel code may be exported by its owner using a new
gpio_export() call, which should be most useful for driver debugging.
Such exports may optionally be done without a "direction" attribute.

Userspace may ask to take over a GPIO by writing to a sysfs control file,
helping to cope with incomplete board support or other "one-off"
requirements that don't merit full kernel support:

  echo 23 > /sys/class/gpio/export
	... will gpio_request(23, "sysfs") and gpio_export(23);
	use /sys/class/gpio/gpio-23/direction to (re)configure it,
	when that GPIO can be used as both input and output.
  echo 23 > /sys/class/gpio/unexport
	... will gpio_free(23), when it was exported as above

The extra D-space footprint is a few hundred bytes, except for the sysfs
resources associated with each exported GPIO.  The additional I-space
footprint is about two thirds of the current size of gpiolib (!).  Since
no /dev node creation is involved, no "udev" support is needed.

Related changes:

  * This adds a device pointer to "struct gpio_chip".  When GPIO
    providers initialize that, sysfs gpio class devices become children of
    that device instead of being "virtual" devices.

  * The (few) gpio_chip providers which have such a device node have
    been updated.

  * Some gpio_chip drivers also needed to update their module "owner"
    field ...  for which missing kerneldoc was added.

  * Some gpio_chips don't support input GPIOs.  Those GPIOs are now
    flagged appropriately when the chip is registered.

Based on previous patches, and discussion both on and off LKML.

A Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio update is ready to submit once this
merges to mainline.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: a few maintenance build fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gpio: build fixes

2008-05-24T16:56:13+00:00

This fixes various gpio-related build errors (mostly potential)
reported in part by Russell King and Uwe Kleine-König.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Arnaud Patard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gpio: and "no GPIO support here" stubs

2008-03-05T00:35:10+00:00

Add a  defining fail/warn stubs for GPIO calls on platforms that
don't support the GPIO programming interface.  That includes the arch-specific
implementation glue otherwise.

This facilitates a new model for GPIO usage: drivers that can use GPIOs if
they're available, but don't require them.  One example of such a driver is
NAND driver for various FreeScale chips.  On platforms update with GPIO
support, they can be used instead of a worst-case delay to verify that the
BUSY signal is off.

(Also includes a couple minor unrelated doc updates.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

linux-toradex.git/include/linux/gpio.h, branch v2.6.27.27

gpio: sysfs interface

gpio: build fixes

gpio: and "no GPIO support here" stubs