On Ne 14-05-06 08:51:26, David Brownell wrote: > 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. Sorry, I meant only ../state file. Fixed locally. > 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. Maybe date will need to be shifted... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
