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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Tom Burkart <tom@aussec.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] pps: descriptor-based gpio, capture-clear addition
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:14:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113151444.cszd2zdwoast3545@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181113034007.3878-3-tom@aussec.com>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 02:40:05PM +1100, Tom Burkart wrote:
> The change from integer based GPIO API to the descriptor based API
> breaks backward compatibility for the devicetree.  This is due to
> the descriptor based API appending "-gpio" or "-gpios" (see
> Documentation/gpio/base.txt.)

Device tree is a user space facing ABI, and so you must continue to
support the legacy binding as well.

Thanks,
Richard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13  3:40 [PATCH v6 0/4] PPS: pps-gpio PPS ECHO implementation Tom Burkart
2018-11-13  3:40 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] dt-bindings: pps: descriptor-based gpio, capture-clear addition Tom Burkart
2018-11-13  3:40   ` [PATCH v6 2/4] " Tom Burkart
2018-11-13  3:40     ` [PATCH v6 3/4] dt-bindings: pps: pps-gpio PPS ECHO implementation Tom Burkart
2018-11-13  3:40       ` [PATCH v6 4/4] pps: pps-gpio pps-echo implementation Tom Burkart
2018-11-13 15:14     ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2018-11-14  9:25       ` [PATCH v6 2/4] pps: descriptor-based gpio, capture-clear addition tom burkart
2018-11-17 11:11     ` Philipp Zabel
2018-11-17 11:24       ` tom burkart

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