Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH/rfc] schedule /sys/device/.../power for removal | Date | Sun, 14 May 2006 08:51:26 -0700 |
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On Saturday 13 May 2006 5:13 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 06:52 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > On Friday 12 May 2006 3:11 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > What will be impacted by this? > > > > Driver suspend/resume testing ... impact is strongly negative. > > ... > > Which IMO makes removing this a Bad Thing. It needs to have some > > kind of replacement in place before the "magic numbers" go away. > > And that's why Pavel is not proposing to remove it right away... but to > schedule it's removal so that developpers know right now that building a > whole new kernel<->user interface based on that is not the smartest > thing to do.
How could we schedule the removal before we have even had a couple releases to fine-tune its replacement, and verify that the main issues with the current thing are fully resolved?
... plus, removing the whole power/* directory is clearly wrong. The issue that's been acknowledged is only with the contents of a single file, power/state, not the whole directory.
There may be a bit of a gap in the process here. "July 2007" is a date that's not backed up by anything more than agreement that the current approach is a lose. Deprecation is not the same as removal.
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