After enabling the GPIO device support in kernel device driver (Kernel verion 3.10.92) I wanted to read the value of an input pin of my GPIO expander through GPIO sysfs. After exporting and setting the direction as in, on reading, the value is always given as 0 even after the event is happening which will change the pin value as 1. While the output direction is working fine i.e. I am able to glow a LED by altering the value as 0 or 1.
Base address for my GPIO expander in GPIO sysfs is 184. So, to read the pin number 22 i.e. pin number 206 according to GPIO sysfs, the commands I gave in kernel are
echo 206 > /sys/class/gpio/exportecho "in" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio206/directioncat /sys/class/gpio/gpio206/value # always gives the value as 0I am using PCA9505 GPIO expander (40 I/O pins) which is connected to MPC8308 microprocessor and controlled through mpc I2C bus.