On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:38:13 +0200 Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> wrote: > With gpio(4) we still carry an old API with us, which I want to remove. > While working on it, I will also introduce a third locator to device drivers > that attach to gpio pins, flags. It will be needed for e.g. gpioiic(4) to > invert the SDA/SCL pin numbers. > > WIll documenting the changes be enough?
Perhaps only one other question: Is there any advantage to keep compatibility with OpenBSD (from which gpio(4) was intially ported); are there tools from OpenBSD than can be used because of this compatibility? Or has gpio(4) stalled on OpenBSD? Another option would be to allow a full redesign under a new device name/copy, if that's a concern. Personally, although I've seen gpio in the releases I used since quite a while, I've never used it, and I doubt that I used any code relying on it... Thanks, -- Matt