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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/2] mmc: card: Move MMC specific attributes to mmc sub-directory
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:59:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9z2kw2j.fsf@octavius.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342291613-3189-2-git-send-email-merez@codeaurora.org> (Maya Erez's message of "Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:46:52 +0300")

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 14 2012, Maya Erez wrote:
> Separate MMC specific attributes from general block device
> attributes and move them from the /sys/block/<BLOCK_DEV> directory
> to /sys/block/<BLOCK_DEV>/mmc directory

I don't think we can do this, even though the change is a good one.
What happens if someone has userspace scripts that manipulate force_ro,
or ro_lock_until_next_power_on?

sysfs isn't a firmly stable kernel ABI, but I think it's much closer
to one than this patch implies.

Thanks,

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-14 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-14 18:46 [PATCH RESEND v4 1/2] mmc: card: Move MMC specific attributes to mmc sub-directory Maya Erez
2012-07-14 18:50 ` merez
2012-07-14 18:59 ` Chris Ball [this message]

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