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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig index be832eb73627..3d17d40fa635 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig @@ -62,16 +62,12 @@ config GPIO_SYSFS bool "/sys/class/gpio/... (sysfs interface)" depends on SYSFS help - Say Y here to add a sysfs interface for GPIOs. + Say Y here to add the legacy sysfs interface for GPIOs. - This is mostly useful to work around omissions in a system's - kernel support. Those are common in custom and semicustom - hardware assembled using standard kernels with a minimum of - custom patches. In those cases, userspace code may import - a given GPIO from the kernel, if no kernel driver requested it. - - Kernel drivers may also request that a particular GPIO be - exported to userspace; this can be useful when debugging. + This ABI is deprecated. If you want to use GPIO from userspace, + use the character device /dev/gpiochipN with the appropriate + ioctl() operations instead. The character device is always + available. config GPIO_GENERIC depends on HAS_IOMEM # Only for IOMEM drivers |