Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933373Ab3CTQY6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:24:58 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]:54787 "EHLO mail-la0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754361Ab3CTQY4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:24:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5149D38E.9030202@gmail.com> References: <1363791074-16415-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <1363791074-16415-3-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <5149D38E.9030202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:24:54 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: z5ROdaWBWW2xUUIyW0JSDm-zLWo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree From: Daniel Mack To: Rob Herring Cc: Grant Likely , Greg Kroah-Hartman , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 25 On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > On 03/20/2013 09:51 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >> The same data is now available in sysfs, so we can remove the code >> that exports it in /proc and replace it with a symlink to the sysfs >> version. >> >> Tested on versatile qemu model and mpc5200 eval board. More testing >> would be appreciated. > > I would suggest testing with lshw in particular. That's the only > /proc/device-tree user I've come across. kexec is another one. Not to mention various vendor scripts that aren't necessarily public. Don't such things also fall under the "we do not break userspace compatibility - ever" rule? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/