Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751309AbVI2JrE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:47:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751316AbVI2JrE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:47:04 -0400 Received: from mail.parbin.co.uk ([213.162.111.43]:63624 "EHLO mail.parbin.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbVI2JrC (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:47:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:45:00 +0100 From: Alexander Clouter To: Stefan Seyfried Cc: Blaisorblade , Dave Jones , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [2.6.14] Cpufreq_ondemand sysfs names change Message-ID: <20050929094500.GF3169@inskipp.digriz.org.uk> References: <200508232108.26248.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <200509101536.10307.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20050910140148.GC7072@inskipp.digriz.org.uk> <200509271851.36706.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <433BABA9.8070908@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433BABA9.8070908@suse.de> Organization: diGriz X-URL: http://www.digriz.org.uk/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2220 Lines: 72 --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stefan Seyfried [20050929 10:54:01 +0200]: > > >> My thinking too, its a relatively new feature and when I have looked a= round > >> very few userland tools even tinker with ondemand so either we do it n= ow or > >> not at all...or rather we do it later and listen to everyone complain = :) >=20 > so the early birds are doomed? ;-) > they don't call it *bleeding* edge for no reason ;) I'll promise not to fl= ip=20 it back again, deal? > I'll bite the bullet if this "flip the meaning" gets in, but i don't > like it. I'll have to check for the kernel version in my userspace code, > then which is generally a bad idea IMO. > I agree, its messy that this was not dealt with on day one before the code= =20 was even merged but the meaning is logically the other way round to what yo= u=20 would expect it to mean from reading the sysfs name. Joe Public is going t= o=20 get confused on this one, rightly so too. Cheers Alex > --=20 > Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I > QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N=FCrnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen --=20 ______________________________________=20 / A day without sunshine is like a day \ \ without Anita Bryant. / --------------------------------------=20 \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDO7ecNv5Ugh/sRBYRAkyvAJ9AbjQ7UugjHBnA7fFP6H/d2RsOCQCfaoCA DhZ850mmJX+xYouDkdVLNTw= =PdWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q-- - 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/