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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>,
	Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:32:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445502750-22672-7-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445502750-22672-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org>

This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules
it for removal in 2020.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio  | 28 ----------------------------
 MAINTAINERS                           |  1 +
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..867c1fab20e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+What:		/sys/class/gpio/
+Date:		July 2008
+KernelVersion:	2.6.27
+Contact:	Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
+Description:
+
+  As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
+  userspace.  GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit
+  "export" operation.  If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by
+  kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later).
+  Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access.
+
+  GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in
+  the range 0..INT_MAX.  See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information.
+
+    /sys/class/gpio
+	/export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace
+	/unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel
+	/gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N OR
+	/<LINE-NAME> ... for a properly named GPIO line
+	    /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs
+	    /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low
+	    /edge ... r/w as: none, falling, rising, both
+	/gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO
+	    /base ... (r/o) same as N
+	    /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
+	    /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1)
+
+  This ABI is deprecated and will be removed after 2020. It is
+  replaced with the GPIO character device.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio
deleted file mode 100644
index 55ffa2df1c10..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-What:		/sys/class/gpio/
-Date:		July 2008
-KernelVersion:	2.6.27
-Contact:	David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
-Description:
-
-  As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
-  userspace.  GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit
-  "export" operation.  If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by
-  kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later).
-  Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access.
-
-  GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in
-  the range 0..INT_MAX.  See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information.
-
-    /sys/class/gpio
-	/export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace
-	/unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel
-	/gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N OR
-	/<LINE-NAME> ... for a properly named GPIO line
-	    /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs
-	    /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low
-	    /edge ... r/w as: none, falling, rising, both
-	/gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO
-	    /base ... (r/o) same as N
-	    /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
-	    /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1)
-
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 23cd966cb974..0efc993249a1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4643,6 +4643,7 @@ T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/gpio/
 F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev
+F:	Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
 F:	drivers/gpio/
 F:	include/linux/gpio/
 F:	include/linux/gpio.h
-- 
2.4.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22  8:32 [PATCH 0/6] GPIO character device skeleton Linus Walleij
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] gpio: make the gpiochip a real device Linus Walleij
2015-10-24 18:09   ` Markus Pargmann
2015-10-25  7:06   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-10-26  2:12     ` Mark Brown
2015-11-03 21:20     ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-02 10:31   ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-02 12:25     ` Mark Brown
2015-11-02 12:43       ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-02 12:47         ` Mark Brown
2015-11-02 12:53           ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-02 13:06             ` Mark Brown
2015-11-02 13:14               ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-02 13:17                 ` Mark Brown
2015-11-02 13:25                   ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-03 21:24     ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-04 10:48       ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-05  9:44         ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-05 10:29           ` Mark Brown
2015-11-16 14:27           ` Linus Walleij
2015-12-03 14:04             ` Linus Walleij
2015-12-03 14:06               ` Linus Walleij
2015-12-03 21:26                 ` Michael Welling
2015-12-04 22:31                 ` Michael Welling
2015-12-11 17:58                   ` Linus Walleij
2015-12-08  9:29               ` Johan Hovold
2015-12-11 18:06                 ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] gpio: refer to gpio device in prints and debugfs Linus Walleij
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs Linus Walleij
2015-10-22 20:35   ` Michael Welling
2015-10-24  0:30   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-01-28 11:13     ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-26  1:34   ` Mark Brown
2016-01-27 10:05   ` Bamvor Zhang Jian
2016-01-28 11:14     ` Linus Walleij
2016-01-29 10:24       ` Bamvor Zhang Jian
2016-02-10 10:04         ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] tools/gpio: create GPIO tools Linus Walleij
2015-10-25  8:23   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] gpio: add a userspace character device ABI Linus Walleij
2015-10-24 18:46   ` Markus Pargmann
2015-10-22  8:32 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2015-10-22 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/6] GPIO character device skeleton Michael Welling
2015-10-24 17:53 ` Markus Pargmann
2015-10-30 14:40   ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-02 10:00     ` Johan Hovold
2015-10-24 18:42 ` Markus Pargmann
2015-10-30  1:55   ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-10-30 19:48     ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-02 10:13       ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-03  7:23         ` Markus Pargmann
2015-11-03 12:06           ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-03 17:18             ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-04 19:44               ` Michael Welling
2015-11-05  9:40               ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-05 14:11                 ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-06 10:21                   ` Johan Hovold
2015-11-16 13:33                     ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-03 17:05           ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-30 14:43   ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-30 22:54     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-01  9:37       ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-02 10:16         ` Johan Hovold
2015-10-26  2:18 ` Mark Brown
2015-10-30  1:55 ` Alexandre Courbot
2015-10-30 19:47   ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-01  2:41     ` Mark Brown
2015-11-03  7:39       ` Markus Pargmann
2015-11-03  8:50         ` Mark Brown
2015-11-03 10:21           ` Amit Kucheria
2015-11-03 17:06           ` Linus Walleij

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