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author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:31:35 +0000 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:32:03 +0000 |
commit | 4ec3eb13634529c0bc7466658d84d0bbe3244aea (patch) | |
tree | b491daac2ccfc7b8ca88e171a43f66888463568a /Documentation/gpio.txt | |
parent | 24056f525051a9e186af28904b396320e18bf9a0 (diff) | |
parent | 15095bb0fe779c0403091bda7adce5fb3bb9ca35 (diff) |
Merge branch 'smp' into misc
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpio.txt b/Documentation/gpio.txt index 9633da01ff46..792faa3c06cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio.txt @@ -617,6 +617,16 @@ and have the following read/write attributes: is configured as an output, this value may be written; any nonzero value is treated as high. + If the pin can be configured as interrupt-generating interrupt + and if it has been configured to generate interrupts (see the + description of "edge"), you can poll(2) on that file and + poll(2) will return whenever the interrupt was triggered. If + you use poll(2), set the events POLLPRI and POLLERR. If you + use select(2), set the file descriptor in exceptfds. After + poll(2) returns, either lseek(2) to the beginning of the sysfs + file and read the new value or close the file and re-open it + to read the value. + "edge" ... reads as either "none", "rising", "falling", or "both". Write these strings to select the signal edge(s) that will make poll(2) on the "value" file return. |