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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 <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> |
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