Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:17:27 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface |
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On 7/16/07, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
> Holy sh*t. There is not even a functional replacement ready, but still > everybody wants to remove /proc/acpi. (Maybe the replacement started > to work recently, i have not looked into this area for the last months. > This does not change my pint, though). > This is not going to work. > IMNSHO, we need the new interface available and usable for quite some time > (i'd say for over one year), and then we can start to phase out the old > interface. > Starting with removing /proc/acpi is not the correct ordering of actions.
Heh, you're 3 days late to the party, but yeah, Zhang's corrected me/ pointed this out (the functionality in /proc/acpi not yet in the sysfs I/F being used by said userspace tools) already. I guess I had originally misunderstood the "some user space tools still use the ACPI procfs" bit.
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