Matthias Brugger wrote:
> [+ivan +andreas]
> 
> On 16/09/2021 10:01, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> > Did you have a look at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GPIO for standard 
> > packages to access GPIO instead of downstream, RPi specific, software?
> > 
> > You can use 'gpioinfo gpiochip446' and 'gpioinfo gpiochip454' to get info 
> > about the gpio available.
> > 
> > You can try to use an offset of 446, so try to set gpio 463 (446 + 17). Not 
> > sure why there is such an offset, though.
> > Matthias, any idea?
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately not. Maybe it would be something worth to investigate as users 
> regularly get confused about that.
> 
> I remember that we had that discussion in the past, but can't recall what was 
> the outcome. Andreas do you remember?

As a simple user without distracting background knowledge ;^> :

The main source of irritation seems to be that the naming scheme is different
- at least compared to Raspbian.  But when searching the web, most of the hits
will refer to that.

The behavior of the /sys interface (deprecated or not) is consistent (N +
line, with N the number from gpiochipN).  Just that 'for us' N is not zero.

For the user it would be a help if that naming could (also) start with zero.
Not sure if there is a kernel boot parameter to influence that (similar to the
ethernet device naming schemes), or if it's a compile time parameter...
libgpiod seems to refer to the first one as gpiochip0 anyhow, so adjusting the
kernel name would increase consistency, IMO.

My 2¢

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