Re: [PATCH 23/23] Documentation: gpio: add documentation for gpio-mockup

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 11:59 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:15:59PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 9/4/20 8:45 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > +GPIO Testing Driver
> > > +===================
> > > +
> > > +The GPIO Testing Driver (gpio-mockup) provides a way to create simulated GPIO
> > > +chips for testing purposes. There are two ways of configuring the chips exposed
> > > +by the module. The lines can be accessed using the standard GPIO character
> > > +device interface as well as manipulated using the dedicated debugfs directory
> > > +structure.
> >
> > Could configfs be used for this instead of debugfs?
> > debugfs is ad hoc.
>
> Actually sounds like a good idea.
>

Well, then we can go on and write an entirely new mockup driver
(ditching module params and dropping any backwards compatibility)
because we're already using debugfs for line values.

How would we pass the device properties to configfs created GPIO chips
anyway? Devices seem to only be created using mkdir. Am I missing
something?

Bart