Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:20:30 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value | From | Mike Frysinger <> |
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 05:15, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the point was to lower the number of user<->kernel transitions. yes, >> all of this stuff can of course be done in the shell, but it's hard to >> push limits when the interface is tying your hands and sitting on your >> back. > > So what's the application that needs to do all this in > userspace yet which can't hook up a quick kernel driver? > > I don't like the idea of embedding any kind of interpreter > in the sysfs interface, but that's the direction you seem > to be heading ...
i dont view the userspace GPIO interface as a simple "i want to wiggle pins for fun and testing". i see it as a dynamic method for building userspace drivers for simple devices. as such, having a very simple "command language" for optimizing the interaction provides a pretty good trade off between kernel complexity and lowering overhead imo. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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