[PATCH] ARM/ARM64: defconfig: drop GPIO_SYSFS on multiplatforms

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Dec 2 04:39:15 PST 2016


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 24, 2016 3:57:52 PM CET Linus Walleij wrote:
>> The sysfs ABI to GPIO is marked obsolete and should not be
>> encouraged. Users should be encouraged to switch to using the
>> character device.
(...)
>>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v5_defconfig | 1 -
>>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig | 1 -
>>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig        | 1 -
>
> Hmm, while this is a trivial change, we normally put the defconfig
> changes for arm and arm64 into two separate next/* branches.
>
> I've split the patch up accordingly and slightly modified the
> changelog text to match.

OK thanks a lot Arnd, I was a bit uncertain about that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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