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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2015-10-22 09:58:34 +0200
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2016-02-09 11:09:55 +0100
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parentgpio: add a userspace character device ABI (diff)
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gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete
This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules it for removal in 2020. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio (renamed from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio)4
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
index 55ffa2df1c10..867c1fab20e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
What: /sys/class/gpio/
Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
-Contact: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
+Contact: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Description:
As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ Description:
/label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
/ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1)
+ This ABI is deprecated and will be removed after 2020. It is
+ replaced with the GPIO character device.