linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Documentation: gpio: add character device userspace API documentation

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Message-ID: <9e33f7dc-deee-4165-bc10-ad77f38b270a@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:16:32 +0100
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
To: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, brgl@...ev.pl, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        andy@...nel.org, corbet@....net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Documentation: gpio: add character device userspace
 API documentation


On 10/01/2024 00:45, Kent Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 10:00:26PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> May we actually state in the documentation that sysfs is subject to
>> remove at some point?
>>
> 
> So formally define what "deprecated" means?
> Is that covered in the higher level documentation somewhere?
> If so I'm more than happy to provide a reference.

We have a few files that may be relevant here, that I'm aware of:

1) https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.html

documents some general assumptions that userspace can make about the
stability of sysfs and its files

2) https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/abi.html

This is the public-facing, somewhat machine-readable repository of what
is supposed to be the kernel's ABI/API, including "obsolete" and
"removed" interfaces.

3) Documentation/ABI/README

describes the process of deprecating an interface


Vegard