From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:56:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924155629.5bd29990@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442841286-8586-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com>
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:14:46 +0200
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> The gpiolib supports parsing DT properties of the form <function>-gpio
> but it was only added for compatibility with older DT bindings that got
> it wrong and should not be used in newer bindings.
>
> The commit that added support for this was:
>
> dd34c37aa3e8 ("gpio: of: Allow -gpio suffix for property names")
>
> but didn't update the documentation to explain this so it's been a source
> of confusion. So let's make clear this in the GPIO documentation.
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
jon
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2015-09-21 13:14 Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-09-24 21:56 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2015-10-02 11:13 ` Linus Walleij
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