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gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI so we can properly etch it in stone. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-22 08:21:57 +00:00
What: /dev/gpiochip[0-9]+
Date: November 2015
KernelVersion: 4.4
Contact: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Description:
The character device files /dev/gpiochip* are the interface
between GPIO chips and userspace.
Documentation: ABI: update gpio-cdev to reference chardev.rst Update the gpio-cdev interface document to refer to the new chardev.rst. Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
2024-01-15 00:48:40 +00:00
The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined in
[include/uapi]<linux/gpio.h> and documented in
Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst.
gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI so we can properly etch it in stone. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-22 08:21:57 +00:00
The following file operations are supported:
open(2)
docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 07:40:50 +00:00
Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR.
gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI so we can properly etch it in stone. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-22 08:21:57 +00:00
ioctl(2)
docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 07:40:50 +00:00
Initiate various actions.
Documentation: ABI: update gpio-cdev to reference chardev.rst Update the gpio-cdev interface document to refer to the new chardev.rst. Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
2024-01-15 00:48:40 +00:00
See Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst
for a description of all ioctls.
gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI so we can properly etch it in stone. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-22 08:21:57 +00:00
close(2)
docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30 07:40:50 +00:00
Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated
with the file descriptor.
gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI so we can properly etch it in stone. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-22 08:21:57 +00:00
Users: TBD
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