Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:06:48 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value | From | Mike Frysinger <> |
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 05:48, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > 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. > > I don't. I see it as an adjunct to real drivers. Or maybe > we just differ on what "simple" means here. > >> 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. > > If that's what you want, why don't you write a custom driver > that provides the kind of command interpreter you want?
i had "simple-gpio" but it was rejected as it duplicated too much with the gpio sysfs interface
does vectored writes (writve) work with sysfs ? if so, then that should work for back-to-back commands rather than having sysfs do stream parsing. -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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