Source: linux Severity: wishlist Hey,
In current debian kernels CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS is only set for ARM kernels. This options allows userspace to directly tinker with GPIO (if they're not bound by a driver). Which is quite useful on development boards with GPIO extension headers to tinker with electronics without having to write a full kernel driver. With the appearance of embedded/development based on Intel chips like e.g. the Minnowboard, this is also useful on x86/amd64. (Actually if you use some of the Minnowboard howto's/tutorials it's the suggested way for playing with GPIO there). So as the subject says, please enable CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS on at least the x86 architectures as well. Though it might be useful to generally enable it (e.g. at least mips has some devboards as well, probably others too). -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)