Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933064Ab3CUMmh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:42:37 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-f170.google.com ([209.85.210.170]:35831 "EHLO mail-ia0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932184Ab3CUMmg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:42:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop> 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> <1363851836.17680.20.camel@pasglop> <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop> From: Grant Likely Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:42:15 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cIVJC4ds8o9p-rtpiWydl3mKork Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , devicetree-discuss , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "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: 1057 Lines: 31 On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:16 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt >> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, Line 30 > > Whatever... it's still gross :-) ptffff! g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- 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/