Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:42:43 +0200
From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
       Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>,
       Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal: common kernel-wide GPIO interface
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > I'll rephrase my Q here.
> > 
> > /sys/class/gpio/gpio63/
> > 
> > this suggests that either - only 1 GPIO device can register (bad)
> 
> Unacceptably bad.  I currently use anywhere from 2 to 4 different
> devices with GPIOs.

Sure, it would probably be nice to have GPIO devices in sysfs dirs of
their respective parent. The variant I've sent was just a quick-n-dirty
framework we hacked for a project. 

Robert 
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