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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:06:43 -0700
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On Thursday 04 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> my next request was for a 1 letter command set and chaining
> operations. ?say you want to toggle a gpio line 4 times, having to go
> between kernel and userspace for that seems kind of heavy.
> echo TTTT > value

Having that kind of stuff in kernelspace seems wrong;
if you're going that route, embed Guile or something.  ;)

The "TTTT" thing could as easily be scripted in BASH.


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