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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:00:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: DT GPIO numbering?
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:

> Actually I think the kernel internal GPIO numbers shouldn't be in the
> sysfs API, instead userspace should use the names.

This is true, but we cannot remove these numbers because they
are now in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio

And while the "testing" ABI is, well for testing, it would probably
break a lot of stuff it we removed it.

But we can sure add names. However these would still sit under
/sys/class/gpio/gpioN/name

Or do you suggest we simply duplicate all GPIOs which have
names under /sys/class/gpio/named/<name>
or something like that?

I know Grant may have opinions on this...

>  Probably it's
> best to not use /sys/class/gpio/export but instead let the board
> init code export the GPIOs available to userspace with proper names.

This sounds true.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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