From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>,
Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>,
Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: remove threeg and interface sysfs interfaces
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 23:39:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006223947.GC43526@vmdeb7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444040262-6520-1-git-send-email-jlee@suse.com>
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:17:42PM +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Since v3.0 kernel, acer-wmi driver auto detects internal 3G device and
> provides the threeg rfkill interface. So the sysfs interface of 3G is
> no longer necessary now.
>
> The 7b8aca65 patch added kernel information log to remind to user space
> for the threeg sysfs interface will be removed in 2012, then b58b9ffc patch
> updated the interface removing time to 2014.
>
> I think the 3 years lead time is enough for user space application to use
> rfkill instead of sysfs interface to control 3G device.
Seems reasonable :)
Queued to testing, and then to next hopefully tomorrow.
--
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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2015-10-05 10:17 [PATCH] acer-wmi: remove threeg and interface sysfs interfaces Lee, Chun-Yi
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