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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:10:54PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I don't remember about any rationale behind /sys/bus/edac. It was
> there already before I start working on EDAC about 10 years ago.
> I guess it was used in the past by edac-utils (or maybe it is just a
> side effect of the need to create a bus on some past).
> 
> Btw, The documented EDAC ABI is /sys/devices/system/edac, as
> described at Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-edac.
> 
> So, I suspect it should be safe to get rid of /sys/bus/edac,
> provided that it won't cause side effects at /sys/devices/system/edac.
> 
> Why I think it is safe to get rid of /sys/bus/edac?
> ---------------------------------------------------

...

Thanks for the analysis. So yap, I think we should try to rip out the
whole bus hierarchy then, when we have a quiet minute and whoever does
this, should add your analysis to the commit message so that we know.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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