On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:26:54AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Greg KH | 2011-09-19 15:03:53 [-0700]: > > >Once you add a userspace api like this, you can't ever remove it, so I > >would recommend not doing this. > > Do you consider the debugfs interface as an userspace api? Yes, and Linus does as well and has said so many times publically. > It was introduced for developers to debug things. Yes it was, is this debugging something? > My understanding is that Sarah is getting rid of this once she rewrote > the part of the code that needs this workaround. Again, you just broke any tool that was used to using that interface. As this really doesn't look like a debugging interface, put it in sysfs. greg k-h -- 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
