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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:16:41 +0000
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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.

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