Bug#810085: Please enable CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS on x86/am64
Source: linux
Severity: wishlist
Hey,
In current debian kernels CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS is only set for ARM kernels. This
options allows userspace to directly tinker with GPIO (if they're not bound
by a driver). Which is quite useful on development boards with GPIO extension
headers to tinker with electronics without having to write a full kernel
driver.
With the appearance of embedded/development based on Intel chips like e.g.
the Minnowboard, this is also useful on x86/amd64. (Actually if you use
some of the Minnowboard howto's/tutorials it's the suggested way for playing
with GPIO there).
So as the subject says, please enable CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS on at least the x86
architectures as well. Though it might be useful to generally enable it (e.g.
at least mips has some devboards as well, probably others too).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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