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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:25:57AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:

> The problem is that once this userspace interface is exposed, it's
> nearly permanent and has to be support for a long long time .. It might
> seen trivial to just remove something your not using, but we never know
> who is using what once the kernel is released.

Deprecating sysfs interfaces can be done within 6 months or so, 
especially if there's only one real consumer.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org