From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754101AbbIXV4d (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:56:33 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:55212 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752892AbbIXV4b (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:56:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:56:29 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Alexandre Courbot Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that -gpio has been deprecated Message-ID: <20150924155629.5bd29990@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1442841286-8586-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> References: <1442841286-8586-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:14:46 +0200 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > The gpiolib supports parsing DT properties of the form -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