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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:43:56 +0100
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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.