Re: [PATCH] platform: acer-wmi: update notice about deprecated user interface

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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:34:47PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> Am 2015-10-05 um 12:30 schrieb joeyli:
> > Hi Darren, 
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:20:52AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:50:32PM +0800, joeyli wrote:
> >>> Hi Martin, 
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> This just looks odd in the logs. Feel free to ignore it or act on it
> >>>> differently ;)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your patch and it reminds me to remove those interfaces in acer-wmi.
> >>> Please let me check and I am thinking direct remove those interfaces.
> >>
> >> Joey, I will wait to hear from you on this patch (or a replacement).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks for your reminding. I just sent patch to remove sysfs interface of acer-wmi.
> > 
> > Joey Lee
> > 
> 
> I have to leave the estimation whether this old interface won't have
> users to you and others, but if it's ok, it's nice to see dead code
> removed! thanks,
> 
>                   martin

User space should uses rfkill interface instead of sysfs. The original date of
removal is 2012, then we extended the deadline to 2014. I think 3 years is enough
to user space application for changing to rfkill.

Still very thanks for your help on acer-wmi driver.


Regards
Joey Lee
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