From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:45:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110323094557.GA3040@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300833843.1815.53.camel@zag>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:44:03PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> When we started to clean up /sys (again only talking about devices, not
> other stuff) we had:
> /block/*
> /class/<subsys>/*
> /bus/<subsys>/devices/*
> /devices/system/<subsys>/*
> which are 4 different exports of exactly the same thing, a "device".
> "Block" we converted to "class" already, "class" will be converted to
> "bus", and "bus" will be renamed to "subsystem". All the current names
> will be kept as compat symlinks, just as we did for "block".
I bet userspace will end up failing with that and need updating yet
again, inspite of the symlinks.
While Linus complains about the churn in the ARM subtree, I'd like to
officially complain about the pointless churn in sysfs which actively
breaks (and sometimes prevents) userspace booting when you upgrade
kernels.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201103100131.58206.rjw@sisk.pl>
[not found] ` <201103122212.40828.rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-03-13 13:02 ` [PATCH 9-10/10] Allow subsystems to avoid using sysdevs for defining "core" PM callbacks Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-13 13:03 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev R. J. Wysocki
2011-03-17 8:20 ` Paul Mundt
2011-03-19 0:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 14:04 ` Paul Mundt
2011-03-22 14:19 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 20:30 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 20:39 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 21:00 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 21:12 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 21:49 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Paul Mundt
2011-03-22 22:00 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 22:23 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 22:44 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 23:32 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 23:46 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 23:50 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-23 9:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-03-22 22:23 ` Paul Mundt
2011-03-23 11:12 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Mark Brown
2011-03-23 11:28 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Paul Mundt
2011-03-22 22:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 22:20 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 22:42 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 22:56 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 23:05 ` Kay Sievers
2011-03-22 23:47 ` [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-22 20:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-23 9:59 ` Paul Mundt
2011-03-23 20:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-13 13:04 ` [PATCH 10/10] ARM: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM in timer and leds Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-14 9:06 ` [PATCH 10/10] ARM: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs Stephen Boyd
2011-03-14 19:54 ` [Update] Re: [PATCH 10/10] ARM: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM in timer and leds Rafael J. Wysocki
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