Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: lib-sysfs: Add 'wakeup' attribute

[SÃren Brinkmann]

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 05:52PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Soren Brinkmann
> <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Add an attribute 'wakeup' to the GPIO sysfs interface which allows
> > marking/unmarking a GPIO as wake IRQ.
> > The file 'wakeup' is created in each exported GPIOs directory, if an IRQ
> > is associated with that GPIO and the irqchip implements set_wake().
> > Writing 'enabled' to that file will enable wake for that GPIO, while
> > writing 'disabled' will disable wake.
> > Reading that file will return either 'disabled' or 'enabled' depening on
> > the currently set flag for the GPIO's IRQ.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >  - fix error path to unlock mutex before return
> 
> As you're adding an ABI, you should be patching
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio and
> Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt in this patch.
> 
> While I *HATE* the idea of adding IRQ support to userspace
> for GPIOs, this "just" adds the wakeup capacity, so I guess I'm
> OK with it.
> 
> Provided you add it to the ABI doc...

Thanks. I will add some documentation and sent a new patch.

	Thanks,
	SÃren
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