Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2006 12:19:16 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/rfc] schedule /sys/device/.../power for removal |
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On Pá 12-05-06 03:11:51, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > It is very ugly, and we really should use names instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > index 421bcff..dfcfc47 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ be removed from this file. > > > > --------------------------- > > > > +What: /sys/device/.../power > > +When: July 2007 > > +Files: > > +Why: Because it takes integers, and different userland applications > > + expect different numbers to mean different things. > > + (Pcmcia expect 2 for off, some other code expects 3 for off). > > +Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> > > + > > +--------------------------- > > What will be impacted by this?
Some obscure place PCMCIA utils, IIRC. There was one more user, but I do not remember who it was. Plus there may be few people doing echo manually. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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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