Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21T12:36:58Z

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:16 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.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.
>
> Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, Line 30

Whatever... it's still gross :-)

Cheers,
Ben.