Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:02 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:29 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote: > We currently do not use smt-snooze-delay in the kernel. > The sysfs entries needs to be retained until we do a clean up > ppc64_cpu > util that uses these entries to determine SMT, > clean up patch for this has already been posted out by Prerna. > Once, we have the ppc64_cpu changes in, we can look to clean up these > parts from the kernel.
We generally shouldn't change user visible interfaces.
People still have old versions of ppc64_cpu, we must not break them
Cheers, Ben.
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