On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

Of course we don't want to make it a first-class interface
because of the reasons you explain in the cover letter,
but it would totally make sense to me to call it a
debugging feature of libgpio instead of calling it a
standalone driver.

I second this opinion. The logic analyzer does in my mind
classify as a GPIO debugging feature. Surely someone
debugging anything connected to GPIO, such as a key or
MMC card detect or whatever could use this feature to see
what is going on on that line.

Yours,
Linus Walleij