From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754149AbaHKQNz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:13:55 -0400 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:58146 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752050AbaHKQNx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:13:53 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <53E8EBBD.6080500@roeck-us.net> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:13:49 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Courbot CC: "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Walleij , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gpiolib: Provide and export gpiod_export_name 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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