linux-stable/include
Linus Walleij 521a2ad6f8 gpio: add userspace ABI for GPIO line information
This adds a GPIO line ABI for getting name, label and a few select
flags from the kernel.

This hides the kernel internals and only tells userspace what it
may need to know: the different in-kernel consumers are masked
behind the flag "kernel" and that is all userspace needs to know.

However electric characteristics like active low, open drain etc
are reflected to userspace, as this is important information.

We provide information on all lines on all chips, later on we will
likely add a flag for the chardev consumer so we can filter and
display only the lines userspace actually uses in e.g. lsgpio,
but then we first need an ABI for userspace to grab and use
(get/set/select direction) a GPIO line.

Sample output from "lsgpio" on ux500:

GPIO chip: gpiochip7, "8011e000.gpio", 32 GPIO lines
        line 0: unnamed unlabeled
        line 1: unnamed unlabeled
(...)
        line 25: unnamed "SFH7741 Proximity Sensor" [kernel output open-drain]
        line 26: unnamed unlabeled
(...)

Tested-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-19 09:48:46 +01:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpica', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-fan' 2016-01-21 00:41:59 +01:00
asm-generic gpio: allow setting ARCH_NR_GPIOS from Kconfig 2016-02-19 00:22:54 +01:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-01-22 11:58:43 -08:00
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dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
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linux gpio: store reflect the label to userspace 2016-02-19 09:48:41 +01:00
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media [media] media-entitiy: add a function to create multiple links 2016-01-11 12:19:26 -02:00
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net net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
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rdma IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers 2016-01-19 15:35:01 -05:00
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trace Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
uapi gpio: add userspace ABI for GPIO line information 2016-02-19 09:48:46 +01:00
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