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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