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gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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/*
* <linux/gpio.h> - userspace ABI for the GPIO character devices
*
gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines This adds a userspace ABI for reading and writing GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to read/write n offsets from a gpiochip. This file handle in turn accepts two ioctl()s: one that reads and one that writes values to the selected lines. - Handles can be requested as input/output, active low, open drain, open source, however when you issue a request for n lines with GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL, they must all have the same flags, i.e. all inputs or all outputs, all open drain etc. If a granular control of the flags for each line is desired, they need to be requested individually, not in a batch. - The GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL read ioctl() can be issued also to output lines to verify that the hardware is in the expected state. - It reads and writes up to GPIOHANDLES_MAX lines at once, utilizing the .set_multiple() call in the driver if possible, making the call efficient if several lines can be written with a single register update. The limitation of GPIOHANDLES_MAX to 64 lines is done under the assumption that we may expect hardware that can issue a transaction updating 64 bits at an instant but unlikely anything larger than that. ChangeLog v2->v3: - Use gpiod_get_value_cansleep() so we support also slowpath GPIO drivers. - Fix up the UAPI docs kerneldoc. - Allocate the anonymous fd last, so that the release function don't get called until that point of something fails. After this point, skip the errorpath. ChangeLog v1->v2: - Handle ioctl_compat() properly based on a similar patch to the other ioctl() handling code. - Use _IOWR() as we pass pointers both in and out of the ioctl() - Use kmalloc() and kfree() for the linehandled, do not try to be fancy with devm_* it doesn't work the way I thought. - Fix const-correctness on the linehandle name field. Acked-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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* Copyright (C) 2016 Linus Walleij
gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
* the Free Software Foundation.
*/
#ifndef _UAPI_GPIO_H_
#define _UAPI_GPIO_H_
#include <linux/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
/**
* struct gpiochip_info - Information about a certain GPIO chip
* @name: the Linux kernel name of this GPIO chip
* @label: a functional name for this GPIO chip, such as a product
* number, may be NULL
gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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* @lines: number of GPIO lines on this chip
*/
struct gpiochip_info {
char name[32];
char label[32];
gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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__u32 lines;
};
gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines This adds a userspace ABI for reading and writing GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to read/write n offsets from a gpiochip. This file handle in turn accepts two ioctl()s: one that reads and one that writes values to the selected lines. - Handles can be requested as input/output, active low, open drain, open source, however when you issue a request for n lines with GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL, they must all have the same flags, i.e. all inputs or all outputs, all open drain etc. If a granular control of the flags for each line is desired, they need to be requested individually, not in a batch. - The GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL read ioctl() can be issued also to output lines to verify that the hardware is in the expected state. - It reads and writes up to GPIOHANDLES_MAX lines at once, utilizing the .set_multiple() call in the driver if possible, making the call efficient if several lines can be written with a single register update. The limitation of GPIOHANDLES_MAX to 64 lines is done under the assumption that we may expect hardware that can issue a transaction updating 64 bits at an instant but unlikely anything larger than that. ChangeLog v2->v3: - Use gpiod_get_value_cansleep() so we support also slowpath GPIO drivers. - Fix up the UAPI docs kerneldoc. - Allocate the anonymous fd last, so that the release function don't get called until that point of something fails. After this point, skip the errorpath. ChangeLog v1->v2: - Handle ioctl_compat() properly based on a similar patch to the other ioctl() handling code. - Use _IOWR() as we pass pointers both in and out of the ioctl() - Use kmalloc() and kfree() for the linehandled, do not try to be fancy with devm_* it doesn't work the way I thought. - Fix const-correctness on the linehandle name field. Acked-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-04-26 02:35:29 -06:00
/* Informational flags */
#define GPIOLINE_FLAG_KERNEL (1UL << 0) /* Line used by the kernel */
#define GPIOLINE_FLAG_IS_OUT (1UL << 1)
#define GPIOLINE_FLAG_ACTIVE_LOW (1UL << 2)
#define GPIOLINE_FLAG_OPEN_DRAIN (1UL << 3)
#define GPIOLINE_FLAG_OPEN_SOURCE (1UL << 4)
/**
* struct gpioline_info - Information about a certain GPIO line
* @line_offset: the local offset on this GPIO device, fill this in when
* requesting the line information from the kernel
* @flags: various flags for this line
* @name: the name of this GPIO line, such as the output pin of the line on the
* chip, a rail or a pin header name on a board, as specified by the gpio
* chip, may be NULL
* @consumer: a functional name for the consumer of this GPIO line as set by
* whatever is using it, will be NULL if there is no current user but may
* also be NULL if the consumer doesn't set this up
*/
struct gpioline_info {
__u32 line_offset;
__u32 flags;
char name[32];
char consumer[32];
};
gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines This adds a userspace ABI for reading and writing GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to read/write n offsets from a gpiochip. This file handle in turn accepts two ioctl()s: one that reads and one that writes values to the selected lines. - Handles can be requested as input/output, active low, open drain, open source, however when you issue a request for n lines with GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL, they must all have the same flags, i.e. all inputs or all outputs, all open drain etc. If a granular control of the flags for each line is desired, they need to be requested individually, not in a batch. - The GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL read ioctl() can be issued also to output lines to verify that the hardware is in the expected state. - It reads and writes up to GPIOHANDLES_MAX lines at once, utilizing the .set_multiple() call in the driver if possible, making the call efficient if several lines can be written with a single register update. The limitation of GPIOHANDLES_MAX to 64 lines is done under the assumption that we may expect hardware that can issue a transaction updating 64 bits at an instant but unlikely anything larger than that. ChangeLog v2->v3: - Use gpiod_get_value_cansleep() so we support also slowpath GPIO drivers. - Fix up the UAPI docs kerneldoc. - Allocate the anonymous fd last, so that the release function don't get called until that point of something fails. After this point, skip the errorpath. ChangeLog v1->v2: - Handle ioctl_compat() properly based on a similar patch to the other ioctl() handling code. - Use _IOWR() as we pass pointers both in and out of the ioctl() - Use kmalloc() and kfree() for the linehandled, do not try to be fancy with devm_* it doesn't work the way I thought. - Fix const-correctness on the linehandle name field. Acked-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-04-26 02:35:29 -06:00
/* Maximum number of requested handles */
#define GPIOHANDLES_MAX 64
gpio: userspace ABI for reading GPIO line events This adds an ABI for listening to events on GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to listen to a specific offset on a specific gpiochip. To fetch the stream of events from the file handle, userspace simply reads an event. - Events can be requested with the same flags as ordinary handles, i.e. open drain or open source. An ioctl() call GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL is issued indicating the desired line. - Events can be requested for falling edge events, rising edge events, or both. - All events are timestamped using the kernel real time nanosecond timestamp (the same as is used by IIO). - The supplied consumer label will appear in "lsgpio" listings of the lines, and in /proc/interrupts as the mechanism will request an interrupt from the gpio chip. - Events are not supported on gpiochips that do not serve interrupts (no legal .to_irq() call). The event interrupt is threaded to avoid any realtime problems. - It is possible to also directly read the current value of the registered GPIO line by issuing the same GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL as used by the line handles. Setting the value is not supported: we do not listen to events on output lines. This ABI is strongly influenced by Industrial I/O and surpasses the old sysfs ABI by providing proper precision timestamps, making it possible to set flags like open drain, and put consumer names on the GPIO lines. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-06-02 03:30:15 -06:00
/* Linerequest flags */
gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines This adds a userspace ABI for reading and writing GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to read/write n offsets from a gpiochip. This file handle in turn accepts two ioctl()s: one that reads and one that writes values to the selected lines. - Handles can be requested as input/output, active low, open drain, open source, however when you issue a request for n lines with GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL, they must all have the same flags, i.e. all inputs or all outputs, all open drain etc. If a granular control of the flags for each line is desired, they need to be requested individually, not in a batch. - The GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL read ioctl() can be issued also to output lines to verify that the hardware is in the expected state. - It reads and writes up to GPIOHANDLES_MAX lines at once, utilizing the .set_multiple() call in the driver if possible, making the call efficient if several lines can be written with a single register update. The limitation of GPIOHANDLES_MAX to 64 lines is done under the assumption that we may expect hardware that can issue a transaction updating 64 bits at an instant but unlikely anything larger than that. ChangeLog v2->v3: - Use gpiod_get_value_cansleep() so we support also slowpath GPIO drivers. - Fix up the UAPI docs kerneldoc. - Allocate the anonymous fd last, so that the release function don't get called until that point of something fails. After this point, skip the errorpath. ChangeLog v1->v2: - Handle ioctl_compat() properly based on a similar patch to the other ioctl() handling code. - Use _IOWR() as we pass pointers both in and out of the ioctl() - Use kmalloc() and kfree() for the linehandled, do not try to be fancy with devm_* it doesn't work the way I thought. - Fix const-correctness on the linehandle name field. Acked-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-04-26 02:35:29 -06:00
#define GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_INPUT (1UL << 0)
#define GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OUTPUT (1UL << 1)
#define GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_ACTIVE_LOW (1UL << 2)
#define GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OPEN_DRAIN (1UL << 3)
#define GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OPEN_SOURCE (1UL << 4)
/**
* struct gpiohandle_request - Information about a GPIO handle request
* @lineoffsets: an array desired lines, specified by offset index for the
* associated GPIO device
* @flags: desired flags for the desired GPIO lines, such as
* GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OUTPUT, GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_ACTIVE_LOW etc, OR:ed
* together. Note that even if multiple lines are requested, the same flags
* must be applicable to all of them, if you want lines with individual
* flags set, request them one by one. It is possible to select
* a batch of input or output lines, but they must all have the same
* characteristics, i.e. all inputs or all outputs, all active low etc
* @default_values: if the GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OUTPUT is set for a requested
* line, this specifies the default output value, should be 0 (low) or
* 1 (high), anything else than 0 or 1 will be interpreted as 1 (high)
* @consumer_label: a desired consumer label for the selected GPIO line(s)
* such as "my-bitbanged-relay"
* @lines: number of lines requested in this request, i.e. the number of
* valid fields in the above arrays, set to 1 to request a single line
* @fd: if successful this field will contain a valid anonymous file handle
* after a GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL operation, zero or negative value
* means error
*/
struct gpiohandle_request {
__u32 lineoffsets[GPIOHANDLES_MAX];
__u32 flags;
__u8 default_values[GPIOHANDLES_MAX];
char consumer_label[32];
__u32 lines;
int fd;
};
/**
* struct gpiohandle_data - Information of values on a GPIO handle
* @values: when getting the state of lines this contains the current
* state of a line, when setting the state of lines these should contain
* the desired target state
*/
struct gpiohandle_data {
__u8 values[GPIOHANDLES_MAX];
};
#define GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x08, struct gpiohandle_data)
#define GPIOHANDLE_SET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x09, struct gpiohandle_data)
gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-21 07:29:53 -06:00
gpio: userspace ABI for reading GPIO line events This adds an ABI for listening to events on GPIO lines. The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request to listen to a specific offset on a specific gpiochip. To fetch the stream of events from the file handle, userspace simply reads an event. - Events can be requested with the same flags as ordinary handles, i.e. open drain or open source. An ioctl() call GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL is issued indicating the desired line. - Events can be requested for falling edge events, rising edge events, or both. - All events are timestamped using the kernel real time nanosecond timestamp (the same as is used by IIO). - The supplied consumer label will appear in "lsgpio" listings of the lines, and in /proc/interrupts as the mechanism will request an interrupt from the gpio chip. - Events are not supported on gpiochips that do not serve interrupts (no legal .to_irq() call). The event interrupt is threaded to avoid any realtime problems. - It is possible to also directly read the current value of the registered GPIO line by issuing the same GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL as used by the line handles. Setting the value is not supported: we do not listen to events on output lines. This ABI is strongly influenced by Industrial I/O and surpasses the old sysfs ABI by providing proper precision timestamps, making it possible to set flags like open drain, and put consumer names on the GPIO lines. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-06-02 03:30:15 -06:00
/* Eventrequest flags */
#define GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_RISING_EDGE (1UL << 0)
#define GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_FALLING_EDGE (1UL << 1)
#define GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_BOTH_EDGES ((1UL << 0) | (1UL << 1))
/**
* struct gpioevent_request - Information about a GPIO event request
* @lineoffset: the desired line to subscribe to events from, specified by
* offset index for the associated GPIO device
* @handleflags: desired handle flags for the desired GPIO line, such as
* GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_ACTIVE_LOW or GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OPEN_DRAIN
* @eventflags: desired flags for the desired GPIO event line, such as
* GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_RISING_EDGE or GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_FALLING_EDGE
* @consumer_label: a desired consumer label for the selected GPIO line(s)
* such as "my-listener"
* @fd: if successful this field will contain a valid anonymous file handle
* after a GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL operation, zero or negative value
* means error
*/
struct gpioevent_request {
__u32 lineoffset;
__u32 handleflags;
__u32 eventflags;
char consumer_label[32];
int fd;
};
/**
* GPIO event types
*/
#define GPIOEVENT_EVENT_RISING_EDGE 0x01
#define GPIOEVENT_EVENT_FALLING_EDGE 0x02
/**
* struct gpioevent_data - The actual event being pushed to userspace
* @timestamp: best estimate of time of event occurrence, in nanoseconds
* @id: event identifier
*/
struct gpioevent_data {
__u64 timestamp;
__u32 id;
};
#define GPIO_GET_CHIPINFO_IOCTL _IOR(0xB4, 0x01, struct gpiochip_info)
#define GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x02, struct gpioline_info)
#define GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x03, struct gpiohandle_request)
#define GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x04, struct gpioevent_request)
gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs A new chardev that is to be used for userspace GPIO access is added in this patch. It is intended to gradually replace the horribly broken sysfs ABI. Using a chardev has many upsides: - All operations are per-gpiochip, which is the actual device underlying the GPIOs, making us tie in to the kernel device model properly. - Hotpluggable GPIO controllers can come and go, as this kind of problem has been know to userspace for character devices since ages, and if a gpiochip handle is held in userspace we know we will break something, whereas the sysfs is stateless. - The one-value-per-file rule of sysfs is really hard to maintain when you want to twist more than one knob at a time, for example have in-kernel APIs to switch several GPIO lines at the same time, and this will be possible to do with a single ioctl() from userspace, saving a lot of context switching. We also need to add a new bus type for GPIO. This is necessary for example for userspace coldplug, where sysfs is traversed to find the boot-time device nodes and create the character devices in /dev. This new chardev ABI is *non* *optional* and can be counted on to be present in the future, emphasizing the preference of this ABI. The ABI only implements one single ioctl() to get the name and number of GPIO lines of a chip. Even this is debatable: see it as a minimal example for review. This ABI shall be ruthlessly reviewed and etched in stone. The old /sys/class/gpio is still optional to compile in, but will be deprecated. Unique device IDs are created using IDR, which is overkill and insanely scalable, but also well tested. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-21 07:29:53 -06:00
#endif /* _UAPI_GPIO_H_ */