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General Purpose Input/Output Framework
"A 'General Purpose Input/Output' (GPIO) is a flexible software-controlled digital signal. They are provided from many kinds of chip, and are familiar to Linux developers working with embedded and custom hardware, begins Documentation/gpio.txt. In a recent four patch series, David Brownell noted, "when we hashed out the Documentation/gpio.txt GPIO programming interfaces last year, there were a few features in the 'we want this eventually, but can live without it for now' category. Following this post are patches adding some of those features." He went on to describe the two new features introduced in his patches:
"1) Implementation framework in lib/gpiolib.c ... the interface provided to GPIO _users_ is unchanged, but providers can now hook up through a 'gpio_chip' that lets multiple types of GPIO provider coexist. Examples: SOC-native GPIOs, ones provided by an FPGA, I2C or SPI GPIO expanders, etc."
"2) I2C driver for common pcf8574/8575 GPIO expanders ... these are pretty common on embedded hardware, and it's routine for external trees to have ugly board-specific hacks exposing those GPIOs to drivers. Unlike such hacks, I think support using standard GPIO calls should be mergable upstream."
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