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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/obsolete')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio | 30 |
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill deleted file mode 100644 index ff60ad9ec..000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support - -For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt. - -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state -Date: 09-Jul-2007 -KernelVersion v2.6.22 -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org -Description: Current state of the transmitter. - This file is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in 2014, - because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block' - state of the rfkill driver. -Values: A numeric value. - 0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED - transmitter is turned off by software - 1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED - transmitter is (potentially) active - 2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED - transmitter is forced off by something outside of - the driver's control. - -What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim -Date: 09-Jul-2007 -KernelVersion v2.6.22 -Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org -Description: This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to - claim just control over a single rfkill instance. - This file is scheduled to be removed in 2012. -Values: 0: Kernel handles events diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu index f1e02a98b..99fda67fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Date: Mai 2012 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and - button settings. buttons holds informations about button layout. - When written, this file lets one write the respective profile - buttons to the mouse. The data has to be 47 bytes long. + button settings. The buttons variable holds information about + button layout. When written, this file lets one write the + respective profile buttons to the mouse. The data has to be + 47 bytes long. The mouse will reject invalid data. Which profile to write is determined by the profile number contained in the data. @@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ Date: Mai 2012 Contact: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Description: The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and - button settings. profile holds informations like resolution, sensitivity - and light effects. + button settings. A profile holds information like resolution, + sensitivity and light effects. When written, this file lets one write the respective profile settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long. The mouse will reject invalid data. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio new file mode 100644 index 000000000..867c1fab2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-gpio @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +What: /sys/class/gpio/ +Date: July 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> +Description: + + As a Kconfig option, individual GPIO signals may be accessed from + userspace. GPIOs are only made available to userspace by an explicit + "export" operation. If a given GPIO is not claimed for use by + kernel code, it may be exported by userspace (and unexported later). + Kernel code may export it for complete or partial access. + + GPIOs are identified as they are inside the kernel, using integers in + the range 0..INT_MAX. See Documentation/gpio.txt for more information. + + /sys/class/gpio + /export ... asks the kernel to export a GPIO to userspace + /unexport ... to return a GPIO to the kernel + /gpioN ... for each exported GPIO #N OR + /<LINE-NAME> ... for a properly named GPIO line + /value ... always readable, writes fail for input GPIOs + /direction ... r/w as: in, out (default low); write: high, low + /edge ... r/w as: none, falling, rising, both + /gpiochipN ... for each gpiochip; #N is its first GPIO + /base ... (r/o) same as N + /label ... (r/o) descriptive, not necessarily unique + /ngpio ... (r/o) number of GPIOs; numbered N to N + (ngpio - 1) + + This ABI is deprecated and will be removed after 2020. It is + replaced with the GPIO character device. |