Tegra gpio driver: Need to configure pins in gpio mode/nontristate with gpio-request

Colin Cross ccross at google.com
Thu May 5 14:21:21 EDT 2011


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Then from user space using /sys/class/gpio sysfs interface, I can not make the pin to be
> gpio until I change the kernel code?

Yes, but that's normal.  We don't generally allow userspace to
override the kernel on things that could easily damage the board if it
does something wrong.



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