On 8/29/11 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Deloget wrote:
> Le 29/08/2011 06:55, Philip Prindeville a écrit :
>> The name gpio-cs5535 used to refer to the drivers/char/ module, but in 3.1 
>> it refers to what had been drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio in more recent kernels.
>>
> Have you checked on Linux 3.0 ? It seems to me that many drivers have 
> been moved (serial went to drivers/serial/tty or something like that) 
> and so on.
> 
> Also, I would have checked the linux kernel version out of the package 
> definitions and set a GPIODIR variable to either "/gpio" or "/char", 
> depending on the kernel version. Something like this would be useful 
> anyway when dealing with drivers that move from staging to non-staging.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- Emmanuel

The change was made in 3.1, but it affects mostly naming.

The driver that *was* in drivers/char/ used an entirely different model of 
GPIO, which was revamped around 2.6.35 and appeared as drivers/gpio/ instead to 
support co-habitation until the old driver was finally deprecated (in 3.1).


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