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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:43:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363851836.17680.20.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6sXcg51VhFujsjCsMzF80pdy_QhAposdmya4-C0eEcuUw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 07:35 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Shouldn't we have the symlink just be a config option itself ?
> > Eventually distros might want get rid of it completely ..
> 
> Why? It is the cheapest thing in the world and it means the ABI
> doesn't change at all.

It's also gross and forces sysfs to remain in /sys which isn't a kernel
enforced policy afaik.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 14:51 [PATCH 0/2] of: Create sysfs view of device tree nodes Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] of: Make device nodes kobjects so they show up in sysfs Grant Likely
     [not found]   ` <1363791074-16415-2-git-send-email-grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-20 14:57     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 16:56       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-20 17:46         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 21:28       ` Grant Likely
     [not found] ` <1363791074-16415-1-git-send-email-grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-20 14:51   ` [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:57     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 21:38       ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21  4:19         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21  7:35           ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21  7:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-03-21  8:16               ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21 12:36                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21 12:42                   ` Grant Likely
2013-03-20 15:19     ` Rob Herring
2013-03-20 16:24       ` Daniel Mack
2013-03-20 16:40         ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21  4:03         ` Rob Landley

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