On 8/27/2015 11:30 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't see why we can't fix the names so they make sense now before there >> is hardware in the market. People doing testing and debugging look at stuff >> in /sys and they write their own scripts too, not necessarily in python. > > The practical concern at this point is that it is too late in the 4.2 > development cycle, in my opinion, to push for a cosmetic change like > this. We also have versions of libndctl starting to leak into > distributions. Changing this in 4.3 means breaking the ABI from 4.2 > and managing both ways in future versions of the library as well as > getting all distributions to update. Not insurmountable, but also > something I don't want to take on just for a few characters in a sysfs > file. I think this is better fixed with documentation which I still > owe to the the Documentation/ABI/ directory. Is there any distribution that is going to enable this with 4.2? I know we're using it for testing now but there is still quite a bit of work queued up for 4.3 and more still left to be done. -- ljk -- 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
