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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T09:02:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2016-03-10T08:48:06+00:00</published>
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The previous 'o' is in conflict and not very orderly assigned.
We want to select an ioctl() major that does not conflict with
the existining ones.

Add the new reserved major (0xB4) to Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt

Fixes: 3c702e9987e2 ("gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs")
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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The previous 'o' is in conflict and not very orderly assigned.
We want to select an ioctl() major that does not conflict with
the existining ones.

Add the new reserved major (0xB4) to Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt

Fixes: 3c702e9987e2 ("gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs")
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>gpio: present the consumer of a line to userspace</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T20:07:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-25T20:01:48+00:00</published>
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I named the field representing the current user of GPIO line as
"label" but this is too vague and ambiguous. Before anyone gets
confused, rename it to "consumer" and indicate clearly in the
documentation that this is a string set by the user of the line.

Also clean up leftovers in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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I named the field representing the current user of GPIO line as
"label" but this is too vague and ambiguous. Before anyone gets
confused, rename it to "consumer" and indicate clearly in the
documentation that this is a string set by the user of the line.

Also clean up leftovers in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>gpio: add userspace ABI for GPIO line information</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T08:48:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-12T21:25:22+00:00</published>
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This adds a GPIO line ABI for getting name, label and a few select
flags from the kernel.

This hides the kernel internals and only tells userspace what it
may need to know: the different in-kernel consumers are masked
behind the flag "kernel" and that is all userspace needs to know.

However electric characteristics like active low, open drain etc
are reflected to userspace, as this is important information.

We provide information on all lines on all chips, later on we will
likely add a flag for the chardev consumer so we can filter and
display only the lines userspace actually uses in e.g. lsgpio,
but then we first need an ABI for userspace to grab and use
(get/set/select direction) a GPIO line.

Sample output from "lsgpio" on ux500:

GPIO chip: gpiochip7, "8011e000.gpio", 32 GPIO lines
        line 0: unnamed unlabeled
        line 1: unnamed unlabeled
(...)
        line 25: unnamed "SFH7741 Proximity Sensor" [kernel output open-drain]
        line 26: unnamed unlabeled
(...)

Tested-by: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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This adds a GPIO line ABI for getting name, label and a few select
flags from the kernel.

This hides the kernel internals and only tells userspace what it
may need to know: the different in-kernel consumers are masked
behind the flag "kernel" and that is all userspace needs to know.

However electric characteristics like active low, open drain etc
are reflected to userspace, as this is important information.

We provide information on all lines on all chips, later on we will
likely add a flag for the chardev consumer so we can filter and
display only the lines userspace actually uses in e.g. lsgpio,
but then we first need an ABI for userspace to grab and use
(get/set/select direction) a GPIO line.

Sample output from "lsgpio" on ux500:

GPIO chip: gpiochip7, "8011e000.gpio", 32 GPIO lines
        line 0: unnamed unlabeled
        line 1: unnamed unlabeled
(...)
        line 25: unnamed "SFH7741 Proximity Sensor" [kernel output open-drain]
        line 26: unnamed unlabeled
(...)

Tested-by: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>gpio: store reflect the label to userspace</title>
<updated>2016-02-19T08:48:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-12T13:48:23+00:00</published>
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The gpio_chip label is useful for userspace to understand what
kind of GPIO chip it is dealing with. Let's store a copy of this
label in the gpio_device, add it to the struct passed to userspace
for GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL and modify lsgpio to show it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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The gpio_chip label is useful for userspace to understand what
kind of GPIO chip it is dealing with. Let's store a copy of this
label in the gpio_device, add it to the struct passed to userspace
for GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL and modify lsgpio to show it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs</title>
<updated>2016-02-09T10:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-21T13:29:53+00:00</published>
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A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is
added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the
horribly broken sysfs ABI.

Using a chardev has many upsides:

- All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual
  device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the
  kernel device model properly.

- Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this
  kind of problem has been know to userspace for character
  devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in
  userspace we know we will break something, whereas the
  sysfs is stateless.

- The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to
  maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time,
  for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO
  lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do
  with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of
  context switching.

We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is
necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is
traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the
character devices in /dev.

This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted
on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference
of this ABI.

The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name
and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable:
see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be
ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone.

The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in,
but will be deprecated.

Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill
and insanely scalable, but also well tested.

Cc: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Pargmann &lt;mpa@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is
added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the
horribly broken sysfs ABI.

Using a chardev has many upsides:

- All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual
  device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the
  kernel device model properly.

- Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this
  kind of problem has been know to userspace for character
  devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in
  userspace we know we will break something, whereas the
  sysfs is stateless.

- The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to
  maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time,
  for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO
  lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do
  with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of
  context switching.

We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is
necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is
traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the
character devices in /dev.

This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted
on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference
of this ABI.

The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name
and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable:
see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be
ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone.

The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in,
but will be deprecated.

Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill
and insanely scalable, but also well tested.

Cc: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Welling &lt;mwelling@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Pargmann &lt;mpa@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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