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

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
>
> Thanks a lot for doing this!
>

I hope it makes sense - I've been polishing it for a while to
the point that I might be missing the forest for the trees.

> ...
>
> >  Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst  | 114 ++++++++++++++++
> >  .../userspace-api/gpio/chardev_v1.rst         | 129 ++++++++++++++++++
>
> Shouldn't it be better to have chardev_v2.rst along with chardev.rst
> to be a link to it?
>

Didn't see any benefit to doing that.  As I see it, chardev.rst will
always be the latest.  If we do ever do a v3 then this doc will get the
renaming and link treatment then.

> ...
>
> 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.

Cheers,
Kent.