Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753742AbaBYWkk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:40:40 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:35391 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753715AbaBYWkg (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:40:36 -0500 Message-ID: <1393368002.6314.10.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Deepthi Dharwar Cc: Cody P Schafer , Madhavan Srinivasan , Olof Johansson , Paul Gortmaker , Wang Dongsheng , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:02 +1100 In-Reply-To: <530C4D57.1030905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1393028074-26797-1-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <530C4D57.1030905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.3-0ubuntu3~saucy1 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 On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:29 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote: > We currently do not use smt-snooze-delay in the kernel. > The sysfs entries needs to be retained until we do a clean up > ppc64_cpu > util that uses these entries to determine SMT, > clean up patch for this has already been posted out by Prerna. > Once, we have the ppc64_cpu changes in, we can look to clean up these > parts from the kernel. We generally shouldn't change user visible interfaces. People still have old versions of ppc64_cpu, we must not break them 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/