On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:59:37AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:36 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Deprecating sysfs interfaces can be done within 6 months or so, > > > especially if there's only one real consumer. > > > > I'll assume your right (can you give an example of this?), but why > > should we even add it if we know it's already going to get replaced. > > It's like it's pre-deprecated .. > > See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's > going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working > way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for > that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now. Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6 months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time passes. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
