On Saturday 13 May 2006 5:13 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 06:52 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > On Friday 12 May 2006 3:11 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > What will be impacted by this? > > > > Driver suspend/resume testing ... impact is strongly negative. > > ... > > Which IMO makes removing this a Bad Thing. It needs to have some > > kind of replacement in place before the "magic numbers" go away. > > And that's why Pavel is not proposing to remove it right away... but to > schedule it's removal so that developpers know right now that building a > whole new kernel<->user interface based on that is not the smartest > thing to do. How could we schedule the removal before we have even had a couple releases to fine-tune its replacement, and verify that the main issues with the current thing are fully resolved? ... plus, removing the whole power/* directory is clearly wrong. The issue that's been acknowledged is only with the contents of a single file, power/state, not the whole directory. There may be a bit of a gap in the process here. "July 2007" is a date that's not backed up by anything more than agreement that the current approach is a lose. Deprecation is not the same as removal.
