Device Tree for GPIO Push Button

[danielbujak]

Hi all, I'm working on a board based on the iMX6ul evk, and am trying to register push button presses in user space. Based on the research I've done, the best way to do this is via gpio-keys in the device tree. So far I've gotten the below code. The device tree compiles but there is no documentation on how to handle this in the user space. So I have 2 questions:

1. Is GPIO-KEYS the correct binding to use if I want to trigger a script to run based on a GPIO toggle for example?
2. Is there documentation on how to handle this and other bindings in user space?

  /* Input button configuration */
  gpio_keys {
      compatible = "gpio-keys";
      pinctrl-names = "default";
      pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpiokeys>;      
      #address-cells = <1>;
      #size-cells = <0>;
      autorepeat;

      test-btn {
        label = "Test-Input";
        linux,code = <28>;
        gpios = <&gpio1 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
      };
  };

    pinctrl_gpiokeys: gpiokeygrp {
      fsl,pins = <
        MX6UL_PAD_UART5_RX_DATA__GPIO1_IO31    0x000010B0  /* USER Push Button */
      >;
    };

[igorpadykov]

Hi danielbujak

one can check examples on

https://community.freescale.com/thread/381277 

Definitive GPIO guide - Studio Kousagi Wiki 

for documentation one can look at common linux documentation

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt 

Best regards
igor
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[danielbujak]

Thanks, this looks like it will be helpful for some background understanding. I have the gpio-keys somewhat working but I'm having no luck with the gpio-reset. Is there some more documentation on that than what's in the Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset?