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gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete

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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>
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Linus Walleij 2015-10-22 09:58:34 +02:00
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Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio → Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
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What: /sys/class/gpio/ What: /sys/class/gpio/
Date: July 2008 Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27 KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Contact: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Description: Description:
As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
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/label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique
/ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1) /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.

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@ -4816,6 +4816,7 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git
S: Maintained S: Maintained
F: Documentation/gpio/ F: Documentation/gpio/
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev F: Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev
F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio
F: drivers/gpio/ F: drivers/gpio/
F: include/linux/gpio/ F: include/linux/gpio/
F: include/linux/gpio.h F: include/linux/gpio.h