Re: [patch -mm 20/20 RFC] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: addsysfs-GPIO interface

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 18:47:58 EST


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:50:51 -0600 Jim Cromie wrote:

> are you referring to the replacement patch for 20/20 ?
> The one that said RFC ??

Yes.

> heh - youre right, tho :-} I retract that patch.
> Forgive the over-wound (and in retrospect, kinda stunned) newbie !

Stunned by what?
Maybe you should skim over
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf
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> I'll spend some time making the Doc more coherent, and into an actual patch.
> I guess I was hoping for some comments before doing this..
>
> Whats a good name for this file? (for purposes of focusing the tone and
> content)
> Doc/sysfs/gpio-interface ? Doc/hwmon/gpio-sysfs-interface ?

I like Documentation/hwmon/gpio-sysfs-interface, but if the driver(s)
don't live in drivers/hwmon/, then something like
Documentation/gpio/sysfs-interface makes sense to me.
I'd leave Doc/sysfs for sysfs details/internals.

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~Randy
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