From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752686Ab3EMCEE (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 22:04:04 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:41764 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752198Ab3EMCEC (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 22:04:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 03:04:00 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Jeff Chua Cc: lkml Subject: Re: linux-3.10-rc1 procfs interface breaks vmware, eicon, fio .... any fix? Message-ID: <20130513020400.GS25399@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:19:46AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > Anyone on lkml working on patches for vmware to make it run on > Linux-3.10-rc1? The recent change in procfs interface breaks vmware, > diva/eicon and fio modules. > > Every modules is now broken and needs to be reworked. Is there a more > subtle way to handle this like give more time to allow developers to > handle the move rather than killing off the "tranditional" procfs > access I might feel bad about those, if not for one thing - their authors had explicitly chosen to keep them out of tree and did not bother to watch what was going on in linux-next - these changes had been there for quite a while. And now you have a chutzpah to come and complain about that? Better yet, we are expected to be working on fixing those? Really? It's not a rethorical question - I seriously want to know whether I'd misparsed what you meant to say.