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Commit fe95046e authored Oct 22, 2015 by Linus Walleij

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>

parent 40c159b7

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio→Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio

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		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.

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		@@ -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