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

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Nov 30 14:04:29 PST 2016


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.
> 
> Let's begin by removing it from the multi defconfigs. Then
> as time goes by I can aggressively remove it from other
> defconfigs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> ---
> ARM SoC folks: please apply this for whatever branch holds
> defconfig changes.
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v5_defconfig | 1 -
>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig | 1 -
>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig        | 1 -
>  3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 

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.

	Arnd



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