[PATCH 0/3] XRA1403,gpio - add XRA1403 gpio expander driver

From	"Han, Nandor (GE Healthcare)" <nandor.han@ge.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 0/3] XRA1403,gpio - add XRA1403 gpio expander driver
Date	2017-04-05 15:00 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Walleij [mailto:linus.walleij@linaro.org]
> Sent: 29 March 2017 04:51
> To: Han, Nandor (GE Healthcare) <nandor.han@ge.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Mark Rutland
> <mark.rutland@arm.com>; linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org; devicetree@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: EXT: Re: [PATCH 0/3] XRA1403,gpio - add XRA1403 gpio expander driver
> 

<snip>

> Do *NOT* use the sysfs for testing GPIO.
> This is being phased out.
> 
> Use the tools in tools/gpio/* so that you exercise the
> character device instead of the old deprecated ABI.
> 

Thanks Linus, really good and  helpful comments.
I agree that make more sense to test with tools/gpio/*.

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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Re: [PATCH 0/3] XRA1403,gpio - add XRA1403 gpio expander driver Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-03-29 04:00 +0200
  [PATCH 0/3] XRA1403,gpio - add XRA1403 gpio expander driver "Han, Nandor (GE Healthcare)" <nandor.han@ge.com> - 2017-04-05 15:00 +0200

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