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On Thursday 02 March 2006 06:49, Brown, Len wrote: > I'm afraid that even after we get this stuff out of /proc > and into sysfs where it belongs, we'll have to leave /proc/acpi around > for a while b/c unfortunately people are under the impression > that the path names there actually mean something and > they can actually count on them -- which they can't. But they should. Once you provide an interface here you have to provide it essentially forever. Or at least if you really change it use a very long deprecation period, but even that is a bad thing to do to users. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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