Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757391Ab3CUHoO (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:44:14 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:51968 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151Ab3CUHoN (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1363851836.17680.20.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Grant Likely Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , devicetree-discuss , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "David S. Miller" Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:43:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1363791074-16415-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <1363791074-16415-3-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <1363791479.12701.9.camel@pasglop> <1363839594.17680.19.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 07:35 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > > Shouldn't we have the symlink just be a config option itself ? > > Eventually distros might want get rid of it completely .. > > Why? It is the cheapest thing in the world and it means the ABI > doesn't change at all. It's also gross and forces sysfs to remain in /sys which isn't a kernel enforced policy afaik. Cheers, Ben. -- 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/