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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpufreq deprecation
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:12:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817151204.28ecb1a0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817105859.GA1497@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> Today I learned that /proc/cpufreq is going to be removed 
> from 2.6.. I thought that 2.6 means "no interface changes" :-(.

Well, we'll see.  One very good reason for adding such a runtime warning is
to give people six months to convince the developers that it's a bad idea.

> Anyway, if
> we are going to warn about it, we might want to include newline...

Sure.

> -		printk(KERN_INFO "Access to /proc/sys/cpu/ is deprecated and will be removed from (new) 2.6. kernels soon after 2005-01-01");
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Access to /proc/sys/cpu/ is deprecated and will be removed from (new) 2.6. kernels soon after 2005-01-01\n");

hrmpf.  The original author is hereby impaled upon a metaphorical 80-col
xterm.  Shall fix that too.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17 10:58 cpufreq deprecation Pavel Machek
2004-08-17 14:39 ` Ray Bryant
2004-08-17 16:45   ` Dave Jones
2004-08-17 19:54     ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-17 22:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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