GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL

Warning

This ioctl is part of GPIO Character Device Userspace API (v1) and is obsoleted by GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL.

Name

GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL - Request a line with edge detection from the kernel.

Synopsis

GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL

int ioctl(int chip_fd, GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL, struct gpioevent_request *request)

Arguments

chip_fd

The file descriptor of the GPIO character device returned by open().

request

The event_request specifying the line to request and its configuration.

Description

Request a line with edge detection from the kernel.

On success, the requesting process is granted exclusive access to the line value and may receive events when edges are detected on the line, as described in GPIO_LINEEVENT_DATA_READ.

The state of a line is guaranteed to remain as requested until the returned file descriptor is closed. Once the file descriptor is closed, the state of the line becomes uncontrolled from the userspace perspective, and may revert to its default state.

Requesting a line already in use is an error (EBUSY).

Requesting edge detection on a line that does not support interrupts is an error (ENXIO).

As with the line handle, the bias configuration is best effort.

Closing the chip_fd has no effect on existing line events.

Configuration Rules

The following configuration rules apply:

The line event is requested as an input, so no flags specific to output lines, GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OUTPUT, GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OPEN_DRAIN, or GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_OPEN_SOURCE, may be set.

Only one bias flag, GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_BIAS_xxx, may be set. If no bias flags are set then the bias configuration is not changed.

The edge flags, GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_RISING_EDGE and GPIOEVENT_REQUEST_FALLING_EDGE, may be combined to detect both rising and falling edges.

Requesting an invalid configuration is an error (EINVAL).

Return Value

On success 0 and the request.fd contains the file descriptor for the request.

On error -1 and the errno variable is set appropriately. Common error codes are described in GPIO Error Codes.