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

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Sep 24 2015 - 17:56:35 EST


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