Proposed deprecation of device-tree-gpio-naming.md

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Wed, 2025-08-06 at 14:21 -0500, Andrew Geissler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM Andrew Jeffery
> <andrew at codeconstruct.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In the comment thread at [1] I've proposed deprecating the directions
> > in device-tree-gpio-naming.md[2] for the purpose of describing GPIOs in
> > devicetrees. Devicetrees represent the hardware, and from experience
> > over time I think it's best that they reflect the information from the
> > schematics without influence from software implementation choices.
> 
> Yeah agree, it seemed like a good idea at the time but there has been a
> lot of friction with this design over time. I know some reviews have simply
> been abandoned due to the frustrations of coming up with an agreed to
> gpio name. And other reviews have taken an excessive amount of time
> to get through.
> 
> > However, perhaps it's still a reasonable set of suggestions for
> > consumption of pins with the translation from net names done by the
> > applications themselves?
> 
> If we all agree, I could do one final update to the doc stating it's
> been deprecated
> 

Thanks!

>  but feel free to use the existing recommendations
> when creating a new system if it makes sense. And another note
> indicating some OpenBMC repos may require some work to support
> a new GPIO name.

Sounds good to me.

Andrew