On 21 March 2017 at 12:14, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The question is if maintain it again is the right reaction to the > current agony. Maybe death is better solution. > > I don't think it's widely used and IMHO it's probably used for trivial > things like write/read from sysfs. > > For example we have for work with /sys/block a file lib/sysfs.c in > utils-linux. Not sure if for something like this is necessary to have > shared library. I did a little bit more research what sysfsutils provides and who are using it. 'Do not use libsysfs' in kernel documentation[1] is pretty convincing hint this library should be left to be in state it is. Secondly the list of projects I was able to find[2] had either migrated away from the libsysfs or died. I was able to find one exception, iputils arping command. I sent change to iputils maintainer that will remove libsysfs stuff moment ago, so lets hope that will be sorted in future release. TL;DR. not including sysfsutils to util-linux is the right thing. [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Documentation/admin-guide/sysfs-rules.rst [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/sysfsutils/ -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
