From: Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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devicetree-discuss
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"David S. Miller" <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:16:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxGe6thdnQo6sPDccEGzUEkXFDGRD4aq_DJOop6Cincb94ODA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363851836.17680.20.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, Line 30
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 8:16 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
2013-03-21 8:16 ` Grant Likely [this message]
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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