From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:14:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603021314.04601.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30063BFB95@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Thursday 02 March 2006 06:49, Brown, Len wrote:
> I'm afraid that even after we get this stuff out of /proc
> and into sysfs where it belongs, we'll have to leave /proc/acpi around
> for a while b/c unfortunately people are under the impression
> that the path names there actually mean something and
> they can actually count on them -- which they can't.
But they should. Once you provide an interface here you
have to provide it essentially forever. Or at least if you really
change it use a very long deprecation period, but even that
is a bad thing to do to users.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-02 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 5:49 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU Brown, Len
2006-03-02 5:49 ` Brown, Len
2006-03-02 9:33 ` Romano Giannetti
2006-03-02 15:53 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-03-02 15:58 ` Romano Giannetti
2006-03-02 12:14 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-02 16:30 ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-02 18:44 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 19:21 ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-03 7:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 7:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 17:41 ` Ashok Raj
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-02 19:37 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 19:26 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 19:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 19:18 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 19:18 ` Brown, Len
2006-03-02 19:16 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 19:16 ` Brown, Len
2006-03-02 17:34 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 17:34 ` Brown, Len
2006-03-02 17:30 Brown, Len
2006-03-02 17:30 ` Brown, Len
2006-03-02 0:55 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-02 1:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-05 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05 2:26 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-01 23:01 Moore, Robert
2006-03-01 23:01 ` Moore, Robert
2006-03-01 22:46 Dave Jones
2006-03-01 23:03 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 0:55 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 1:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 1:38 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 3:13 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 3:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 3:45 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-02 3:52 ` Ashok Raj
2006-03-02 4:11 ` Dave Jones
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