From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gpiolib: Provide and export gpiod_export_name Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:13:49 -0700 Message-ID: <53E8EBBD.6080500@roeck-us.net> References: <1406139132-5404-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <53D0A8B7.2010005@roeck-us.net> <53E32C09.5000704@roeck-us.net> <53E8DE1D.9070503@roeck-us.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alexandre Courbot Cc: "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Walleij , Randy Dunlap List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org On 08/11/2014 08:20 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: [ ... ] > > Note that this doesn't change anything to the core of the argument ; > we have not heard what Linus thinks about named GPIOs in > /sys/class/gpio yet, maybe he will have a different opinion... > Well, please let me know if/when you are planning to take away that existing ABI so I can plan accordingly. FWIW, out-of-kernel users I am currently aware of are Juniper Networks and Zodiac Aerospace. The latter asked me to help them upstreaming their code. If you plan to remove the ABI, you might want to inform its current in-kernel users. You can look those up yourself. Thanks, Guenter