Chris Boot wrote:
Hello all,
More and more devices these days come with some sort of GPIO interface,
and more and more drivers within the kernel could make use of a common
way of accessing pins on such an interface, not to mention userspace
apps. For example, we have the I2C, LED, and SPI subsystems that each
could drive a device that's actually connected to some GPIO pins somewhere.
I propose to develop a common way of registering and accessing GPIO pins
on various devices. Now I'm no hardware expert, but I do like to dabble
a bit and would love to see such a system be developed. Most people tend
to attach stuff like LCD displays to their parallel ports, but GPIOs are
much better suited to such a purpose than a parallel port. Some (out of
tree) drivers even emulate a parallel interface in order that userspace
software can be fooled to use the GPIO pins as a parallel port. In my
view, this is ugly.
...
So, if anyone likes this idea and/or has some comments, please voice
your opinions! With a little guidance from the masters, I'm willing to
put the effort in to code such a system, but I'd really like to hear
what people involved both in the hardware side and software side of
GPIOs and the kernel have to say about such an interface.
I think it's interesting enough so that it's worth figuring how this
would work with or replace the various interfaces you mentioned. I'm
sure another discussion would take place at that point, before writing code.
--
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