[Soekris] pc87360 linux driver question (GPIO, pc8736x_gpio)

[Jim Cromie]

Joe O'Donnell wrote:
> Thanks Tremendously Jim,
> That definitely helped. The 'referenced shell script' I referred to in 
> the email was a script to create the devices listed in one of those 
> Soekris list messages. That shell script was using a major number of 
> 254. I changed it to 241, and now it works.

Ah, yes,  now I remember why I chose those majors - the kernel allocates 
255..240
on 1st come 1st served, so I chose the numbers least likely to be taken 
by others.

thanks for the confirm.

> I'm using the Soekris board as part of a SCADA system to communicate 
> with motor controllers. I'll bet your driver will see increasing usage 
> for embedded system gpio.

interesting, thanks for the info.

FYI - I did some hacking to add a sysfs interface which supported 
byte-wide GPIO use.
Is that something that you might want ?

> Thanks again,
> Joe


youre quite welcome.
-jimc