Re: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

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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.

Satyam
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