[OE-core] [PATCH] recipes-support: Add recipe for libgpiod

[Belisko Marek]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> Not to derail your enthusiasm, but since this is being proposed for OE-Core,
> how is it better than libsoc by Jack Mitchell?
libsoc is fine but libgpiod will implement correctly gpio handling in
userspace as gpio sysfs is deprecated.
What is the problem to have libgpiod available for other potential
users? Thanks.
More here: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1392949.html
>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 07:43:00PM +0200, Marek Belisko wrote:
>> libgpiod - C library and tools for interacting with the linux GPIO
>> character device
>>
>> Since linux 4.8 the GPIO sysfs interface is deprecated.
>> User space should use the character device instead.
>> This library encapsulates the ioctl calls and data structures behind a
>> straightforward API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_0.2.bb | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_0.2.bb
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_0.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_0.2.bb
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..fe2cd80
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_0.2.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
>> +SUMMARY = "C library and tools for interacting with the linux GPIO character device"
>> +HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod"
>> +
>> +LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2caced0b25dfefd4c601d92bd15116de"
>> +
>> +UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod/releases"
>> +
>> +SRC_URI = "https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz"
>> +
>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e3430f35b6efa842693d659c0bfb7ad5"
>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "de1947f3cb2cc4174364af430309fe6238976658575655bdbd76c60cffa7df92"
>> +
>> +inherit autotools pkgconfig
>> +
>> +# enable tools
>> +PACKAGECONFIG ?= "tools"
>> +
>> +PACKAGECONFIG[tests] = "--enable-tests,--disable-tests,kmod udev"
>> +PACKAGECONFIG[tools] = "--enable-tools,--disable-tools,"
>> +
>> +PACKAGES += " ${PN}-tools"
>> +
>> +FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/*"
>> +FILES_${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
>> --
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BR,

marek

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