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

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Message-ID: <20150924155629.5bd29990@lwn.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:56:29 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has
 been deprecated

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:14:46 +0200
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....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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