Re: CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER to be removed in 2.6.39

Matthew Garrett
2011-07-05T17:52:34Z

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 08:55:23AM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is still there. Missed it or did you want it
> > to reside?
>
> There was a patch to remove it,
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/654021/
>
> Don't know why it is not merged.

There's still plenty of userspace using it. There probably ought to at
least be a period where using it generates a deprecation warning.

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