* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:05:08AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > > * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > So remove rescan for all pci devices. less confusing > > > > > > I'm reluctant to break an existing interface like this, even though > > > it's only in the "testing" section of the ABI. > > > > > > Alex, any comments? > > > > I think standard ABI deprecation practices should apply here. > > Ooh, I missed the fact that this series removed a sysfs file, you are > right, we can't do that. > > So no, don't delete this file, please fix any tools that might happen to > be using it, and then, in a year or so, we can revisit this to see if it > makes sense to remove it. I thought we had some "best practices" to do that, like printing out a big scary deprecation message when the file is accessed, and documenting it in Documentation/ABI somewhere. /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
