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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: dwapb: Use human understandable gpio numbering.
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:10:54 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> We are working to remove dependency on them by introducing GPIO
> descriptors and thinking heavily about how to handle the userspace
> sysfs ABI moving forward. But for the ABI the numbers just need to
> be stable, not intuitive.

The numbers are *not* stable.  That is a problem for users like me.

Thanks,
Richard