2013/10/28 Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:22 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> [...] CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is no longer used anywhere, neither in >> Makefiles nor in the source code. ACPI_PROCFS isn't event used in >> Kconfig files as an intermediate dependency. >> >> What I deduce from that is that even if you set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y in >> the kernel configuration, this will have no impact at all. > > About half a year ago I noticed that this Kconfig symbol is unused since > v2.6.38 [0]. As, apparently, nothing has changed it is currently unused > for over two and a half years. > > I still don't really understand the purpose of this symbol. But whatever > it is, it might as well be dropped. If it's ever needed again it could > be re-added. Or, perhaps, an entirely different approach could be used > to accomplish what that symbol is supposed to do. I prefer the later. I will add new sysfs interface for LID status and make all proc related code in the /driver/acpi/button.c under CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS. > > > Paul Bolle > > [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=136398635322975 > -- Best regards Tianyu Lan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
