Finding GPIO names under Linux
Johannes Thoma
johannes at johannesthoma.com
Mon May 23 10:05:23 EDT 2016
Dear list,
I am writing a driver which uses the "new" descriptor interface of the
GPIO library. As far as I have understood it, gpiod_get(8) is the way to
allocate (and also lock?) GPIOs pins for use. My question is how do I
find what to pass as the con_id parameter (this should identify the pin
but please correct me if I am wrong, in that case how to I tell
gpiod_get which pin I want?). Is there a file somewhere where I can find
the pin names of my hardware (which is a raspberry 1 for now), something
like /sys/class/gpio/xxx/gpio_pin_names or so, or do I have to look them
up in the device tree or somewhere else? Or do I have to
configure the pin somewhere in the device tree? What I would like to
do is offer an interface (via configfs) where the pins the sensor is
attached can be configured dynamically at run-time.
The driver itself is OpenSource (GPL) and can be obtained at
http://github.com/johannesthoma/linux-hc-sro4
(iio branch is currently the dev branch where this problem occurs).
Thanks a lot,
- Johannes
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