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| author | Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> | 2015-10-22 09:58:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> | 2016-02-09 11:09:55 +0100 |
| commit | fe95046e960b4b76e73dc1486955d93f47276134 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f4fbd0faab1ac26968ae6ac28ea9554dcfd1fff | |
| parent | 40c159b776f882f2e2cbe20c9e29832841e5c0f9 (diff) | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio (renamed from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio) | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 1 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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. diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a85cd6dcb5de..7df638be28e2 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4816,6 +4816,7 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git S: Maintained F: Documentation/gpio/ F: Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev +F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio F: drivers/gpio/ F: include/linux/gpio/ F: include/linux/gpio.h |