Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU. | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:14:04 +0100 |
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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.
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