On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the GPIO sysfs allows you to request any GPIO that is not > claimed by a kernel driver from userspace, is there a reason why you > cannot simply run board-specific init scripts that request and > configure the GPIOs you need? Once GPIO naming is merged, this should > be as elegant as it gets for what you want to do.
For many things this is true. There are some hardware aspects/parameters of exporting that aren't controllable from userspace, such as whether or not reversing the direction of a GPIO is safe. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
