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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:40:20 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
       Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading.
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> PICK ONE!  JUST #*%(&#%& PICK ONE!  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
> 
> I don't care where it is.  Just put it somewhere I can find it, and keep it 
> there.  All this gratuitous moving stuff around serves NO PURPOSE other than 
> to break userspace.  I'm trying to document this so that the next time you 
> go "oh wait, it should be at "/sys/tarantula/fruitbat" I can show that you're 
> breaking an existing documented userspace API.
> 
> There's a kernel config option to make symlinks from the old 
> location.  /sys/block makes as much sense as any other location, and it's 
> what's there now.

Read the sysfs documentation file we just added, it describes how this
is all documented and should be used.  So well that I do not think you
need to try to document it again.

thanks,

greg k-h