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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 and committed by
Guenter Roeck 34781a6b 99fdc587

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Documentation/ABI/obsolete/procfs-i8k
··· 1 + What: /proc/i8k 2 + Date: November 2001 3 + KernelVersion: 2.4.14 4 + Contact: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> 5 + Description: Legacy interface for getting/setting sensor information like 6 + fan speed, temperature, serial number, hotkey status etc 7 + on Dell Laptops. 8 + Since the driver is now using the standard hwmon sysfs interface, 9 + the procfs interface is deprecated. 10 + Users: https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils
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··· 5410 5410 DELL LAPTOP SMM DRIVER 5411 5411 M: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> 5412 5412 S: Maintained 5413 + F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/procfs-i8k 5413 5414 F: drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c 5414 5415 F: include/uapi/linux/i8k.h 5415 5416