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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/gpio-cdev26
-rw-r--r--MAINTAINERS1
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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 4d3d1b817873..a85cd6dcb5de 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4815,6 +4815,7 @@ 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