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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
	Phil Howard <phil@gadgetoid.com>,
	Erik Schilling <erik.schilling@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: [libgpiod][PATCH 2/2] README: mention the linux v5.10 requirement for libgpiod v2
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:19:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240115111929.28628-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240115111929.28628-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

Major version 2 of libgpiod requires linux kernel uAPI v2 to be available.
This was released in linux v5.10 so mention it in the README.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
---
 README | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 632aab3..7680915 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ libgpiod
              character device (gpiod stands for GPIO device)
 
 Since linux 4.8 the GPIO sysfs interface is deprecated. User space should use
-the character device instead. This library encapsulates the ioctl calls and
-data structures behind a straightforward API.
+the character device instead. Version 2 of libgpiod requires the new GPIO
+character device uAPI to be available which was first released in linux v5.10.
+This library encapsulates the ioctl calls and data structures behind a
+straightforward API.
 
 RATIONALE
 ---------
-- 
2.40.1


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-15 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-15 11:19 [libgpiod][PATCH v2 1/2] README: add info about the github page Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-01-15 11:19 ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2024-01-15 11:30   ` [libgpiod][PATCH 2/2] README: mention the linux v5.10 requirement for libgpiod v2 Kent Gibson
2024-01-16  9:18 ` [libgpiod][PATCH v2 1/2] README: add info about the github page Bartosz Golaszewski

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