mainlining shenanigans
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Currently there is no way for user-space to be informed about changes in status of GPIO lines e.g. when someone else requests the line or its config changes. We can only periodically re-read the line-info. This is fine for simple one-off user-space tools, but any daemon that provides a centralized access to GPIO chips would benefit hugely from an event driven line info synchronization. This patch adds a new ioctl() that allows user-space processes to reuse the file descriptor associated with the character device for watching any changes in line properties. Every such event contains the updated line information. Currently the events are generated on three types of status changes: when a line is requested, when it's released and when its config is changed. The first two are self-explanatory. For the third one: this will only happen when another user-space process calls the new SET_CONFIG ioctl() as any changes that can happen from within the kernel (i.e. set_transitory() or set_debounce()) are of no interest to user-space. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> |
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.