Documentation: ABI: Add ABI file for legacy /proc/i8k interface

Add ABI file for informing remaining users of the
deprecation of the legacy /proc/i8k interface.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220109214248.61759-4-W_Armin@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Armin Wolf 2022-01-09 22:42:48 +01:00 committed by Guenter Roeck
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What: /proc/i8k
Date: November 2001
KernelVersion: 2.4.14
Contact: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Description: Legacy interface for getting/setting sensor information like
fan speed, temperature, serial number, hotkey status etc
on Dell Laptops.
Since the driver is now using the standard hwmon sysfs interface,
the procfs interface is deprecated.
Users: https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils

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DELL LAPTOP SMM DRIVER DELL LAPTOP SMM DRIVER
M: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> M: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
S: Maintained S: Maintained
F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/procfs-i8k
F: drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c F: drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
F: include/uapi/linux/i8k.h F: include/uapi/linux/i8k.h