Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:03:39 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree |
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On 03/20/2013 11:24:54 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 03/20/2013 09:51 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > >> The same data is now available in sysfs, so we can remove the code > >> that exports it in /proc and replace it with a symlink to the sysfs > >> version. > >> > >> Tested on versatile qemu model and mpc5200 eval board. More testing > >> would be appreciated. > > > > I would suggest testing with lshw in particular. That's the only > > /proc/device-tree user I've come across. > > kexec is another one. Not to mention various vendor scripts that > aren't > necessarily public. > > Don't such things also fall under the "we do not break userspace > compatibility - ever" rule?
We used to have feature-removal-schedule. Linus removed it. (He did not add it to feature-removal-schedule first.)
Rob
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