Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:07:18 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:24 +0000, 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. > > This should be delayed until we are 100% confident that the sysfs > variant is totally backward compatible with anything that messes around > with /proc/device-tree.
Yup, I agree with that.
> kexec comes to mind (all 4 variants of fs2dt.c (yuck !)), dtc, various > powerpc-utils (bootloader configuration etc...), and more. > > We also need to test the new code with hotplug, I'll see if I can get > somebody at IBM to give it a spin.
Thanks
g.
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