From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@freescale.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393368002.6314.10.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530C4D57.1030905@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:29 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
> We currently do not use smt-snooze-delay in the kernel.
> The sysfs entries needs to be retained until we do a clean up
> ppc64_cpu
> util that uses these entries to determine SMT,
> clean up patch for this has already been posted out by Prerna.
> Once, we have the ppc64_cpu changes in, we can look to clean up these
> parts from the kernel.
We generally shouldn't change user visible interfaces.
People still have old versions of ppc64_cpu, we must not break them
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-25 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-22 0:14 [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore Cody P Schafer
2014-02-25 4:53 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2014-02-25 22:47 ` Cody P Schafer
2014-02-25 7:59 ` Deepthi Dharwar
2014-02-25 22:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-02-26 3:45 ` Michael Ellerman
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