From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Maxim <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:28:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070322152842.GA6054@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070320115403.GA3983@ucw.cz>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:54:03AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > root@MAIN:/home/maxim# cat /sys/devices/system/clockevents/clockevents0/registered
> > lapic F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 1
> > hpet F:0003 M:1(shutdown) C: 0
> > lapic F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 0
> > root@MAIN:/home/maxim#
>
> Now... this file needs to die, before 2.6.21 is released. It tries to
> bring /proc-like parsing nightmare to sysfs. Kill it before it becomes
> part of stable ABI!
Eeek!
I agree, that needs to be fixed now.
Remember, 1 value per file in sysfs! Shall I just submit a patch
ripping it out for now?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 10:30 [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Maxim Levitsky
2007-03-16 23:19 ` Len Brown
2007-03-17 23:00 ` Maxim
2007-03-17 23:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-30 7:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-12-30 14:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-20 11:54 ` sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far) Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 15:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-03-22 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-23 1:24 ` sysfs q [was: sysfs ugly timer interface] Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-23 4:48 ` Greg KH
2007-03-23 6:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 23:39 ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 23:01 ` Maxim
2007-03-16 23:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 0:04 ` [PATCH] i386: trust the PM-Timer calibration of the local APIC timer Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-17 13:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-18 8:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-18 8:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 1:32 ` [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far Len Brown
2007-03-17 9:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 11:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 16:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-17 10:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-17 13:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20 4:27 ` Greg KH
2007-03-20 6:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-20 9:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 11:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20 11:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-17 22:45 ` Maxim
2007-03-20 5:04 ` Lee Revell
2007-03-20 5:36 ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-03-20 9:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-20 18:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-03-20 22:58 ` Eric St-Laurent
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