Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:11:06 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] gpio: Add a block GPIO API to gpiolib | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> wrote: > On 30/09/12 17:19, Stijn Devriendt wrote: >> >> Rules are rules, but why make the interface overly complex when >> the multi-value file is saner, cleaner and simpler? > > Simply because they won't (and probably shouldn't) accept it mainline.
We, including you and Stijn *are* the mainline ... ;-)
The only reason I really dislike it is that the GPIO sysfs interface is scary as it is, so I don't want to add to it if we can instead push to reform it into something more sane.
Linus Walleij
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