From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751460AbWFTWtU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:49:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751458AbWFTWtU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:49:20 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:26568 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751460AbWFTWtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:49:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:52:03 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Jim Cromie Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch -mm 20/20 RFC] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add sysfs-GPIO interface Message-Id: <20060620155203.c700cf53.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <44986DBB.2040206@gmail.com> References: <448DB57F.2050006@gmail.com> <44944D14.2000308@gmail.com> <20060619222223.8f5133a9.akpm@osdl.org> <44985321.3020609@gmail.com> <20060620131440.9c9b0999.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44985D51.8050200@gmail.com> <20060620135249.7f13d042.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <44986DBB.2040206@gmail.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:50:51 -0600 Jim Cromie wrote: > are you referring to the replacement patch for 20/20 ? > The one that said RFC ?? Yes. > heh - youre right, tho :-} I retract that patch. > Forgive the over-wound (and in retrospect, kinda stunned) newbie ! Stunned by what? Maybe you should skim over http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf > I'll spend some time making the Doc more coherent, and into an actual patch. > I guess I was hoping for some comments before doing this.. > > Whats a good name for this file? (for purposes of focusing the tone and > content) > Doc/sysfs/gpio-interface ? Doc/hwmon/gpio-sysfs-interface ? I like Documentation/hwmon/gpio-sysfs-interface, but if the driver(s) don't live in drivers/hwmon/, then something like Documentation/gpio/sysfs-interface makes sense to me. I'd leave Doc/sysfs for sysfs details/internals. --- ~Randy