From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbWELKT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 06:19:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbWELKT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 06:19:58 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:52161 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbWELKT5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 06:19:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:19:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, mochel@digitalimplant.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/rfc] schedule /sys/device/.../power for removal Message-ID: <20060512101916.GC28232@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060512100544.GA29010@elf.ucw.cz> <20060512031151.76a9d226.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060512031151.76a9d226.akpm@osdl.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Pá 12-05-06 03:11:51, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > It is very ugly, and we really should use names instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > index 421bcff..dfcfc47 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ be removed from this file. > > > > --------------------------- > > > > +What: /sys/device/.../power > > +When: July 2007 > > +Files: > > +Why: Because it takes integers, and different userland applications > > + expect different numbers to mean different things. > > + (Pcmcia expect 2 for off, some other code expects 3 for off). > > +Who: Pavel Machek > > + > > +--------------------------- > > What will be impacted by this? Some obscure place PCMCIA utils, IIRC. There was one more user, but I do not remember who it was. Plus there may be few people doing echo manually. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html