From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:14:04 +0100
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On Thursday 02 March 2006 06:49, Brown, Len wrote:

> I'm afraid that even after we get this stuff out of /proc
> and into sysfs where it belongs, we'll have to leave /proc/acpi around
> for a while b/c unfortunately people are under the impression
> that the path names there actually mean something and
> they can actually count on them -- which they can't.

But they should. Once you provide an interface here you 
have to provide it essentially forever. Or at least if you really
change it use a very long deprecation period, but even that 
is a bad thing to do to users.

-Andi
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