From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757469AbXGIPwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:52:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753724AbXGIPwQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:52:16 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:52406 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752710AbXGIPwP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:52:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:51:51 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Zhang Rui , lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20070709155151.GA27711@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20070709145755.GD3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070709145755.GD3492@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs interface. This was only flagged deprecated in January. Userspace hasn't really caught up, so I think removing it now is premature. Given the quantity of software that's been written to use the old /proc interface, I don't think we're realistically going to be able to remove it in the forseeable future. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org