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1What:		/sys/class/gpio/
2Date:		July 2008
3KernelVersion:	2.6.27
4Contact:	Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
5Description:
6
7  As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
8  userspace.  GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit
9  "export" operation.  If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by
10  kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later).
11  Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access.
12
13  GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in
14  the range 0..INT_MAX.  See Documentation/admin-guide/gpio for more information.
15
16  ::
17
18    /sys/class/gpio
19	/export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace
20	/unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel
21	/gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N OR
22	    /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs
23	    /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low
24	    /edge ... r/w as: none, falling, rising, both
25	/gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO
26	    /base ... (r/o) same as N
27	    /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
28	    /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1)
29
30  This ABI is obsoleted by Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev and will be
31  removed after 2020.
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