Changing the direction of a gpio using libgpio tools

[manszigher]

Hi,

I have before only worked with the deprecated sysfs interface in Linux and is now starting to use the libgpio and its tools. One thing that I don't understand and I might have missed it but if I have a gpio pin and it is not used but it is a input is there no way for me then to change it to an output using the libgpio tools? Using the deprecated sysfs interface it was very handy to be able to control the direction on gpio pins from the cli when testing out things. Have I missed something or why is this not possible anymore? Would appreciate any clarification on this topic.

[manszigher]

Hmm looks like gpioset is trying to set the direction of the gpio by calling

    gpiod_line_settings_set_direction(settings,
                                      GPIOD_LINE_DIRECTION_OUTPUT);

makes sense.