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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst index 116921048b18..bd64896de91a 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst @@ -97,9 +97,10 @@ and have the following read/write attributes: poll(2) will return whenever the interrupt was triggered. If you use poll(2), set the events POLLPRI and POLLERR. If you use select(2), set the file descriptor in exceptfds. After - poll(2) returns, either lseek(2) to the beginning of the sysfs - file and read the new value or close the file and re-open it - to read the value. + poll(2) returns, use pread(2) to read the value at offset + zero. Alternatively, either lseek(2) to the beginning of the + sysfs file and read the new value or close the file and + re-open it to read the value. "edge" ... reads as either "none", "rising", "falling", or |