Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:37:07 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface |
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On 7/12/07, Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> wrote: > Well, the ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet > [...] > I'm not sure if the button sysfs I/F is already finished. > We'd better make a double check. :)
Ok, this sounds reasonable.
> and some user space tools still use the ACPI procfs.
But this does *not*, IMHO. It quite defeats the whole concept of feature-removal-schedule.txt. I think that file exists precisely because we cannot gratuitously break userspace interfaces just like that, but when something gets put up there with a removal date that is a good one year in the future, and userspace tools _still_ continue to use it ... then, I suspect something's seriously wrong.
Either the feature-removal-schedule.txt file has become something that users don't even bother checking, or else, they _know_ that even if they don't bother keeping up with the pace in kernel-land, that interface still won't go away (because they're still using it!). In both the above cases, it appears that file itself has become irrelevant and a "feature" that could be "removed" ... :-)
> The schedule of removing ACPI procfs I/F will be changed to Jan 08. > I'm about to send a patch to update it.
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