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authorGravatar Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> 2024-02-12 17:34:20 +0800
committerGravatar Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> 2024-02-14 10:28:48 +0100
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Documentation: gpio: clarify sysfs line values are logical
Clarify that line values are logical, not physical, by replacing high/low terminology with active/inactive. Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <amdy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst
index e12037a0f2b4..116921048b18 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/sysfs.rst
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ and have the following read/write attributes:
allow userspace to reconfigure this GPIO's direction.
"value" ...
- reads as either 0 (low) or 1 (high). If the GPIO
+ reads as either 0 (inactive) or 1 (active). If the GPIO
is configured as an output, this value may be written;
- any nonzero value is treated as high.
+ any nonzero value is treated as active.
If the pin can be configured as interrupt-generating interrupt
and if it has been configured to generate interrupts (see the