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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:51:51 +0100
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs interface.

This was only flagged deprecated in January. Userspace hasn't really 
caught up, so I think removing it now is premature. Given the quantity 
of software that's been written to use the old /proc interface, I don't 
think we're realistically going to be able to remove it in the 
forseeable future.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org