What: /dev/gpiochip[0-9]+ Date: November 2015 KernelVersion: 4.4 Contact: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Description: The character device files /dev/gpiochip* are the interface between GPIO chips and userspace. The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined in [include/uapi] and documented in Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst. The following file operations are supported: open(2) Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. ioctl(2) Initiate various actions. See Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst for a description of all ioctls. close(2) Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated with the file descriptor. Users: TBD