From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:36:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20100513183646.GA18155@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1272667021-21312-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com> <20100513121745.GA10749@srcf.ucam.org> <1273771990.19100.13.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <1273775157.19100.20.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273775157.19100.20.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Walker Cc: Brian Swetland , Paul Walmsley , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Oleg Nesterov , Tony Lindgren , Kevin Hilman , Alan Stern , magnus.damm@gmail.com, Theodore Ts'o , mark gross , Arjan van de Ven , Geoff Smith , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Cousson , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Wool , Linus Walleij , Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:25:57AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > The problem is that once this userspace interface is exposed, it's > nearly permanent and has to be support for a long long time .. It might > seen trivial to just remove something your not using, but we never know > who is using what once the kernel is released. Deprecating sysfs interfaces can be done within 6 months or so, especially if there's only one real consumer. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org