Re: Documentation: OMAPDSS: move sysfs documentation to ABI

[Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:16:18PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/01/18 10:54, Aishwarya Pant wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > In Documentation/arm/OMAP/DSS, there is a description of the DSS and FB sysfs
> > interfaces which could be moved to Documentation/ABI.
> > 
> > Would such a change be useful? I can see that the sysfs interface is still in
> > testing.
> > 
> > The ABI documentation format looks like the following:
> > 
> > What:          (the full sysfs path of the attribute)
> > Date:          (date of creation)
> > KernelVersion: (kernel version it first showed up in)
> > Contact:       (primary contact)
> > Description:   (long description on usage)
> > 
> > I am doing this in an exercise to move sysfs ABI interfaces (which are
> > documented) to their right place i.e. in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
> 
> The Documentation/arm/OMAP/DSS document is for omapfb driver, which is
> deprecated by the omapdrm driver. I haven't maintained omapfb for some
> time now, but I guess it still works ok. I hope we can drop omapfb at
> some point in the future.
> 
> There probably are still omapfb users out there, so the ABI is valid,
> but I'd say it's quite at the bottom of the priority list.

All right, I will drop this then.

> 
>  Tomi
> 
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