Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:35:11 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 21:38 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: >> > NAK. It should at the very least be a CONFIG option for a while >> before >> > completely switching over. >> >> I'll modify patch 1 to create the symlink if CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE is >> not set. After the first patch can be applied we can leave it for a >> release or two before applying the second. > > Shouldn't we have the symlink just be a config option itself ? > Eventually distros might want get rid of it completely ..
Why? It is the cheapest thing in the world and it means the ABI doesn't change at all.
g.
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