[PATCH 19/22] gpio: uapi: document uAPI V1 as deprecated

From: Kent Gibson
Date: Tue Jun 23 2020 - 00:03:29 EST


Update uAPI documentation to deprecate V1 structs and ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx>

---
include/uapi/linux/gpio.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
index e4ed6f79e332..752d63f56b0d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ struct gpioline_event {

/*
* ABI V1
+ *
+ * This version of the ABI is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
+ * Use the latest version if the ABI, defined above, instead.
*/

/* Informational flags */
@@ -261,6 +264,9 @@ struct gpioline_event {
* @consumer: a functional name for the consumer of this GPIO line as set by
* whatever is using it, will be empty if there is no current user but may
* also be empty if the consumer doesn't set this up
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_info_v2 instead.
*/
struct gpioline_info {
__u32 line_offset;
@@ -292,6 +298,9 @@ enum {
* guarantee there are no implicit holes between it and subsequent members.
* The 20-byte padding at the end makes sure we don't add any implicit padding
* at the end of the structure on 64-bit architectures.
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_info_changed_v2 instead.
*/
struct gpioline_info_changed {
struct gpioline_info info;
@@ -331,6 +340,9 @@ struct gpioline_info_changed {
* @fd: if successful this field will contain a valid anonymous file handle
* after a GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL operation, zero or negative value
* means error
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_request instead.
*/
struct gpiohandle_request {
__u32 lineoffsets[GPIOHANDLES_MAX];
@@ -350,6 +362,9 @@ struct gpiohandle_request {
* this specifies the default output value, should be 0 (low) or
* 1 (high), anything else than 0 or 1 will be interpreted as 1 (high)
* @padding: reserved for future use and should be zero filled
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_config instead.
*/
struct gpiohandle_config {
__u32 flags;
@@ -362,6 +377,9 @@ struct gpiohandle_config {
* @values: when getting the state of lines this contains the current
* state of a line, when setting the state of lines these should contain
* the desired target state
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_values instead.
*/
struct gpiohandle_data {
__u8 values[GPIOHANDLES_MAX];
@@ -385,6 +403,9 @@ struct gpiohandle_data {
* @fd: if successful this field will contain a valid anonymous file handle
* after a GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL operation, zero or negative value
* means error
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_request instead.
*/
struct gpioevent_request {
__u32 lineoffset;
@@ -404,6 +425,9 @@ struct gpioevent_request {
* struct gpioevent_data - The actual event being pushed to userspace
* @timestamp: best estimate of time of event occurrence, in nanoseconds
* @id: event identifier
+ *
+ * This struct part of ABI V1 and is deprecated.
+ * Use struct gpioline_event instead.
*/
struct gpioevent_data {
__u64 timestamp;
@@ -428,6 +452,8 @@ struct gpioevent_data {

/*
* V1 ioctl()s
+ *
+ * These ioctl()s are deprecated. Use the V2 equivalent instead.
*/
#define GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x02, struct gpioline_info)
#define GPIO_GET_LINEHANDLE_IOCTL _IOWR(0xB4, 0x03, struct gpiohandle_request)
--
2.27.0