Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/6] [-mm]: ACPI: add a Kconfig option for ACPI procfs interface

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:35:10 +0800 Zhang Rui wrote:

> From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> Add a kconfig option CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS to make procfs interface a configurable attribute of ACPI.
> No procfs interface is actually deprecated, and no sysfs interface is added in this patch.
> CONGI_ACPI_PROCFS is used to mark procfs interface as deprecated once the same function is duplicated in sysfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1.orig/drivers/acpi/Kconfig	2007-01-05 17:20:09.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/acpi/Kconfig	2007-01-05 17:21:51.000000000 +0800
> @@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ config ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_SLEEP
>  	  Create /proc/acpi/sleep
>  	  Deprecated by /sys/power/state
>  
> +config ACPI_PROCFS
> +	bool "Procfs interface (deprecated)"
> +	depends on ACPI
> +	default y
> +	---help---
> +	  Procfs interface for ACPI is made optional for back-compatible.
> +	  As the same functions are duplicated in sysfs interface
> +	  and this proc interface will be removed some time later,
> +	  it's marked as deprecated.
> +

If it's going to be removed, it should be listed as such in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt .

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~Randy