From e7ae65ced7dd71aa3dc29bda7a94ac82d9ea7751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:57:25 +0200 Subject: gpio: mention in DT binding doc that -gpio is deprecated The gpiolib supports parsing DT properties of the form -gpio but it was only added for compatibility with older DT bindings that got it wrong and should not be used in newer bindings. The commit that added support for this was: dd34c37aa3e8 ("gpio: of: Allow -gpio suffix for property names") but didn't update the documentation to explain this so it's been a source of confusion. So let's make this clear in the GPIO DT binding doc. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Signed-off-by: Rob Herring --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt index 5788d5cf1252..82d40e2505f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ properties, each containing a 'gpio-list': GPIO properties should be named "[-]gpios", with being the purpose of this GPIO for the device. While a non-existent is considered valid for compatibility reasons (resolving to the "gpios" property), it is not allowed -for new bindings. +for new bindings. Also, GPIO properties named "[-]gpio" are valid and old +bindings use it, but are only supported for compatibility reasons and should not +be used for newer bindings since it has been deprecated. GPIO properties can contain one or more GPIO phandles, but only in exceptional cases should they contain more than one. If your device uses several GPIOs with -- cgit v1.2.3