Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated

From	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated
Date	2015-09-25 00:00 +0200
Message-ID	<qcmIy-7cc-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has  been deprecated Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2015-09-25 00:00 +0200

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