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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpio/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig index fced1909cbb..6ec0e35b98e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig @@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ config DEBUG_GPIO slower. The diagnostics help catch the type of setup errors that are most common when setting up new platforms or boards. +config GPIO_SYSFS + bool "/sys/class/gpio/... (sysfs interface)" + depends on SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL + help + Say Y here to add a sysfs interface for GPIOs. + + This is mostly useful to work around omissions in a system's + kernel support. Those are common in custom and semicustom + hardware assembled using standard kernels with a minimum of + custom patches. In those cases, userspace code may import + a given GPIO from the kernel, if no kernel driver requested it. + + Kernel drivers may also request that a particular GPIO be + exported to userspace; this can be useful when debugging. + # put expanders in the right section, in alphabetical order comment "I2C GPIO expanders:" |