From: Linus Walleij Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:21:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: gpio: add a userspace character device ABI X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40c159b776f882f2e2cbe20c9e29832841e5c0f9;p=linux-beck.git 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev b/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7b265fbb47e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +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. + + The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in + [include/uapi]. + + The following file operations are supported: + + open(2) + Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. + + ioctl(2) + Initiate various actions. + See the inline documentation in [include/uapi] + for descriptions of all ioctls. + + close(2) + Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated + with the file descriptor. + +Users: TBD diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4d3d1b817873..a85cd6dcb5de 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4815,6 +4815,7 @@ L: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git S: Maintained F: Documentation/gpio/ +F: Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev F: drivers/gpio/ F: include/linux/gpio/ F: include/linux/gpio.h