Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexandre Courbot <> | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:05:54 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] gpiolib: Provide and export gpiod_export_name |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > On 08/11/2014 08:20 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > [ ... ] > >> >> Note that this doesn't change anything to the core of the argument ; >> we have not heard what Linus thinks about named GPIOs in >> /sys/class/gpio yet, maybe he will have a different opinion... >> > > Well, please let me know if/when you are planning to take away > that existing ABI so I can plan accordingly. FWIW, out-of-kernel > users I am currently aware of are Juniper Networks and Zodiac > Aerospace. The latter asked me to help them upstreaming their code. > > If you plan to remove the ABI, you might want to inform its current > in-kernel users. You can look those up yourself.
We are not taking existing user-space ABIs away. But we are also not encouraging people to use bad ABIs by introducing new ways to use them, hence my restraint towards this patch.
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