On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2010, Alan Stern wrote: > > Greg & Rafael: > > > > In 2.6.34-rc1 we have the new /sys/devices/.../power/control attribute, > > which does exactly the same thing as USB's existing power/level > > attribute. > > > > There's no reason to keep both. I'd remove power/level entirely, > > except that it has been in existence for a while and people may be > > using it. > > > > The best solution may be to replace "level" with a symbolic link to > > "control", and possibly also to deprecate it. Does that seem like the > > right thing to do? > > Sounds reasonable to me. On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Greg KH wrote: > Sounds good to me. Alas, it turns out that sysfs doesn't provide any way to create symlinks to attribute files (and especially not to attribute files in group directories). I could add such a thing, but maybe it will be better to keep the existing attribute code for a year or so and add a WARN_ONCE to let people know it's going to be removed. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
