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>
What: /sys/class/gpio/
Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27
-Contact: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
+Contact: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Description:
As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from
/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.
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