Commit 06b49ea4 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'gpio-v3.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

Pull GPIO update from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v3.17 development cycle, and
  this time we got a lot of action going on and it will continue:

   - The core GPIO library implementation has been split up in three
     different files:
     - gpiolib.c for the latest and greatest and shiny GPIO library code
       using GPIO descriptors only
     - gpiolib-legacy.c for the old integer number space API that we are
       phasing out gradually
     - gpiolib-sysfs.c for the sysfs interface that we are not entirely
       happy with, but has to live on for ABI compatibility

   - Add a flags argument to *gpiod_get* functions, with some
     backward-compatibility macros to ease transitions.  We should have
     had the flags there from the beginning it seems, now we need to
     clean up the mess.  There is a plan on how to move forward here
     devised by Alexandre Courbot and Mark Bro...
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