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From: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>
To: "naveen moses" <naveen.moses@hotmail.com>,
	"openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org" <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: Zhikui Ren <zhikui.ren@intel.com>,
	Vernon Mauery <vernon.mauery@linux.intel.com>,
	Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com>,
	Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>,
	naveen moses <naveen.moses@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: support for gpio  as ipmb sensor
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:46:40 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef4d5ac6-49e8-40d6-9e6b-1fe030f3909a@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PS2PR02MB26959672C7002D26EB5F4A4691AF9@PS2PR02MB2695.apcprd02.prod.outlook.com>

Hi Naveen,

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, at 23:46, naveen moses wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> we have a couple of gpios ( input ) accessed via ipmb commands in our platform.
> which cannot be directly monitored using gpio monitor.

What do you mean when you say "cannot be directly monitored using gpio 
monitor"?

>
> our idea is to expose them as ipmb sensors which has gpio state as 
> property which is updated based
> on the current state of the gpio.
>
> at present there is no compatible interface under 
> xyz/openbmc_project/sensors for gpio as sensor.
>
> So is this acceptable to create a new interface for gpio state under 
> xyz/openbmc_project/sensors :
> interface name : gpioState
> which has a property named value whose possible values are boolean 
> (true or false).

What about modelling the behaviour the GPIO state represents rather 
than just providing a DBus interface to the GPIO values?

Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-05 13:16 support for gpio as ipmb sensor naveen moses
2021-10-06  0:16 ` Andrew Jeffery [this message]
2021-10-06 14:40   ` Patrick Williams
2021-10-07  6:12   ` naveen moses
2021-10-07  7:45     ` naveen moses
2021-10-07 10:01       ` Andrei Kartashev

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