On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:46:15AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:16, Robin Getz wrote: > > On Thu 7 Jan 2010 02:31, Dmitry Torokhov pondered: > >> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:18:22AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> > From: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > > >> > Drop the simple fancy sysfs hooks for the aux GPIOs and expose these via > >> > the gpiolib interface so that other drivers can use them. > >> > >> Would not that mess up current users (if any) that may rely on the > >> existing sysfs attributes? > > > > We have talked to the existing users of this (that we know of), and they > > agreed that doing things the "standard" way with gpiolib is the better way to > > move forward on things. > > there is a standard sysfs interface for accessing gpios already too > which this change allows people to utilize Using (and providing) standard interfaces are laudible goal, however that does not mean we can screw existing users over. Now Robin sais that you talked to users (at least some) and this being an embedded platform taht might be OK but generally sysfs is userspace interface and thus are not to be changed lightly, only extended. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
