From fe95046e960b4b76e73dc1486955d93f47276134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Walleij Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:58:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules it for removal in 2020. Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Michael Welling Cc: Markus Pargmann Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij --- Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-gpio | 4 +++- MAINTAINERS | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) rename Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-gpio (88%) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio similarity index 88% rename from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio rename to Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio index 55ffa2df1c10..867c1fab20e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-gpio +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ What: /sys/class/gpio/ Date: July 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 -Contact: David Brownell +Contact: Linus Walleij Description: As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from @@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ Description: /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/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a85cd6dcb5de..7df638be28e2 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -4816,6 +4816,7 @@ 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