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[6/6] gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete

Message ID 1445502750-22672-7-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org
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Linus Walleij Oct. 22, 2015, 8:32 a.m. UTC 
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
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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