Question about GPIO Lib

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:39:05AM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> I'm just saying that, sadly, in many ways gpiolib is still a
> work-in-progress.  The userspace component has been somewhat
> controversial in general over the years, and definitely lacks several
> key features in addition to the one you are asking for.

Just to expand on this a bit: lots of people would prefer not to have a
userspace component at all due to the same hardware safety concerns that 
you have, or to have the userspace component be a driver using gpiolib
which needs to be explicitly connected to the GPIOs.