On 7/12/07, Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, the ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet [...] I'm not sure if the button sysfs I/F is already finished. We'd better make a double check. :)
Ok, this sounds reasonable.
and some user space tools still use the ACPI procfs.
But this does *not*, IMHO. It quite defeats the whole concept of feature-removal-schedule.txt. I think that file exists precisely because we cannot gratuitously break userspace interfaces just like that, but when something gets put up there with a removal date that is a good one year in the future, and userspace tools _still_ continue to use it ... then, I suspect something's seriously wrong. Either the feature-removal-schedule.txt file has become something that users don't even bother checking, or else, they _know_ that even if they don't bother keeping up with the pace in kernel-land, that interface still won't go away (because they're still using it!). In both the above cases, it appears that file itself has become irrelevant and a "feature" that could be "removed" ... :-)
The schedule of removing ACPI procfs I/F will be changed to Jan 08. I'm about to send a patch to update it.
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