Re: GPIO revisited

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

> NetBSD has had support for General Purpose Input/Output devices  
> since the 4.0 release, when the GPIO framework from OpenBSD 3.6 was  
> imported. Since the import of the GPIO framework into NetBSD, I have  
> reworked larger parts of that subsystem in OpenBSD to address some  
> problems and drawbacks (see http://www.vnode.ch/reworking_gpio for  
> motivation and details).
>
> I have now prepared these changes and more for NetBSD and continued  
> to improve on them. The new GPIO framework retains backwards  
> compatibility while adding new features: it integrates with the  
> kauth(9) security framework, has it's own config file format  
> gpio.conf(5), and integrates with the system startup scripts in /etc/ 
> rc.d.

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> The diff itself can be found online at http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/diffs/gpio_13.diff 
> .  I have left older versions of the diff there as well for your  
> amusement.  Apply it against NetBSD -current.

There is a new diff at http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/diffs/ 
gpio_15.diff which covers most of the feedback I got.  I intend to  
commit this really soon (maybe even in a few hours ;).

- Marc