Put in some documentation for the new character device ABI
so we can properly etch it in stone.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                         |  1 +
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev 
b/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7b265fbb47e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+What:          /dev/gpiochip[0-9]+
+Date:          November 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.4
+Contact:       linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+               The character device files /dev/gpiochip* are the interface
+               between GPIO chips and userspace.
+
+               The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in
+               [include/uapi]<linux/gpio.h>.
+
+               The following file operations are supported:
+
+               open(2)
+               Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR.
+
+               ioctl(2)
+               Initiate various actions.
+               See the inline documentation in [include/uapi]<linux/gpio.h>
+               for descriptions of all ioctls.
+
+               close(2)
+               Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated
+               with the file descriptor.
+
+Users:         TBD
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3bb1f52d54e0..23cd966cb974 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4642,6 +4642,7 @@ L:        linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
 T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git
 S:     Maintained
 F:     Documentation/gpio/
+F:     Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev
 F:     drivers/gpio/
 F:     include/linux/gpio/
 F:     include/linux/gpio.h
-- 
2.4.3

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