From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>, Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
david@lang.hm
Subject: Re: Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading.
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:40:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070718234020.GA5971@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707181339.54192.rob@landley.net>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> PICK ONE! JUST #*%(&#%& PICK ONE! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
>
> I don't care where it is. Just put it somewhere I can find it, and keep it
> there. All this gratuitous moving stuff around serves NO PURPOSE other than
> to break userspace. I'm trying to document this so that the next time you
> go "oh wait, it should be at "/sys/tarantula/fruitbat" I can show that you're
> breaking an existing documented userspace API.
>
> There's a kernel config option to make symlinks from the old
> location. /sys/block makes as much sense as any other location, and it's
> what's there now.
Read the sysfs documentation file we just added, it describes how this
is all documented and should be used. So well that I do not think you
need to try to document it again.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 21:03 Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading Rob Landley
2007-07-17 21:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-18 7:58 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-18 17:39 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-18 23:33 ` Kay Sievers
2007-07-20 5:14 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-20 7:00 ` Greg KH
2007-07-20 7:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-20 8:09 ` Greg KH
2007-07-21 3:48 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-21 6:23 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-18 23:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-07-21 0:37 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-19 8:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-21 0:21 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-21 0:43 ` Greg KH
2007-07-23 23:26 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-24 7:38 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-21 0:49 ` Greg KH
2007-07-21 0:52 ` Greg KH
2007-07-21 6:32 ` Rob Landley
2007-07-18 10:33 ` Kay Sievers
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2007-07-21 12:14 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-23 21:49 ` Rob Landley
2007-08-05 12:57 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-24 6:38 ` Greg KH
2007-07-25 19:28 ` Rob Landley
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