Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] gpiolib: Fix line event handling in compatible mode

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:29:21PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > wt., 10 gru 2019 o 17:55 Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):

> > > > Neither of those options are available for the
> > > > gpioevent_data, as that would break the ABI.
> > >
> > > ABI needs v2 actually.
> > >
> > 
> > I finally sat down to integrate this with my series and figured that
> > this can't go on top of it. It's a bug-fix actually and maybe even
> > stable material.
> > 
> > On the other hand - if we have so few users of GPIO chardev with
> > 32-bit user-space and 64-bit kernel - maybe we should just bite the
> > bullet, not fix this one, deprecate it and introduce a proper v2 of
> > the API?
> > 
> 
> Fixing it in API v2 makes the most sense to me.

I agree. Please, use only second patch in my series (if needed I can resend
it separately) and drop this one.

P.S. Actually it's not a bugfix since it's never worked from the day 1.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko