From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752639AbbJENFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:05:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.nue.novell.com ([195.135.221.5]:35618 "EHLO smtp.nue.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbbJENE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 09:04:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:04:42 +0800 From: joeyli To: Martin Kepplinger Cc: Darren Hart , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform: acer-wmi: update notice about deprecated user interface Message-ID: <20151005130442.GE2151@linux-rxt1.site> References: <1443509198-11655-1-git-send-email-martink@posteo.de> <20150929095032.GF2115@linux-rxt1.site> <20151003172052.GF110874@vmdeb7> <20151005103002.GC2151@linux-rxt1.site> <56125247.1020204@posteo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56125247.1020204@posteo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:34:47PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Am 2015-10-05 um 12:30 schrieb joeyli: > > Hi Darren, > > > > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:20:52AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:50:32PM +0800, joeyli wrote: > >>> Hi Martin, > >>> > >>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > >>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger > >>>> --- > >>>> This just looks odd in the logs. Feel free to ignore it or act on it > >>>> differently ;) > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> Thanks for your patch and it reminds me to remove those interfaces in acer-wmi. > >>> Please let me check and I am thinking direct remove those interfaces. > >> > >> Joey, I will wait to hear from you on this patch (or a replacement). > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > > > > Thanks for your reminding. I just sent patch to remove sysfs interface of acer-wmi. > > > > Joey Lee > > > > I have to leave the estimation whether this old interface won't have > users to you and others, but if it's ok, it's nice to see dead code > removed! thanks, > > martin User space should uses rfkill interface instead of sysfs. The original date of removal is 2012, then we extended the deadline to 2014. I think 3 years is enough to user space application for changing to rfkill. Still very thanks for your help on acer-wmi driver. Regards Joey Lee