Re: [PATCH] ACPI: remove unused ACPI_PROCFS Kconfig param

[Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>]

Hi Lan,

Thank you very much for this review!

On 10/28/2013 07:13 AM, Lan Tianyu wrote:
> 2013/10/27 Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>:
>> This patch removes the ACPI_PROCFS parameter
>> (support for legacy /proc/acpi), which is defined
>> but no longer used anywhere in the makefiles and source code.
>>
> I think this should be not removed now. Since there are still interfaces
> under /proc/acpi (E.G, /proc/acpi/wakeup and /proc/acpi/lid/*).
>
> The origin commit which introduces the kconfig is to make some
> interfaces that have backup interfaces in the sysfs configurable before
> removing them actually.
>
> So we still need this kconfig when try to remove remaining /proc/acpi
> interfaces.

I agree that keeping this legacy interface would still be useful.
However, CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is no longer used anywhere, neither in
Makefiles nor in the source code. ACPI_PROCFS isn't event used in
Kconfig files as an intermediate dependency.

What I deduce from that is that even if you set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y in
the kernel configuration, this will have no impact at all.

That's why I proposed to  remove this Kconfig parameter.

Another option would be to fix the issue, and get CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS to
be properly taken into account again.

Cheers,

Michael.

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