Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:44:28 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] gpio: Cygnus: define Broadcom Cygnus GPIO binding |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:45:01AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > Actually we are not that far from being able to do completely without > any GPIO number, and maybe that's what we should aim for. I think the > only remaining offender is the sysfs interface.
And that is a user API, and there's lots of users of it (eg, on Raspberry Pi platforms.) So changing it isn't going to be easy - I'd say that it's impractical.
What you're suggesting would be like re-numbering Linux syscalls.
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