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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>
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What: /dev/gpiochip[0-9]+
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Date: November 2015
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KernelVersion: 4.4
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Contact: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
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Description:
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The character device files /dev/gpiochip* are the interface
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between GPIO chips and userspace.
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The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined in
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[include/uapi]<linux/gpio.h> and documented in
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Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst.
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The following file operations are supported:
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open(2)
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Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR.
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ioctl(2)
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Initiate various actions.
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See Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst
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for a description of all ioctls.
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close(2)
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Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated
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with the file descriptor.
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Users: TBD
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