From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:44:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] gpio: Cygnus: define Broadcom Cygnus GPIO binding In-Reply-To: References: <1418342706-14755-2-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <1918116.UxUgDPTmcq@wuerfel> <1628217.66frkAqHMc@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20141217104428.GV11285@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:45:01AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > Actually we are not that far from being able to do completely without > any GPIO number, and maybe that's what we should aim for. I think the > only remaining offender is the sysfs interface. And that is a user API, and there's lots of users of it (eg, on Raspberry Pi platforms.) So changing it isn't going to be easy - I'd say that it's impractical. What you're suggesting would be like re-numbering Linux syscalls. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.