Subject: Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
       Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       gregkh@suse.de
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:27:17 +0100
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> > 
> > > What we should do is to revert 047bda36150d11422b2c7bacca1df324c909c0b3 and
> > 
> > Bad answer
> 
> Is better than breaking stuff.

.. stuff that made assumptions about something and did stuff it probably
shouldn't have been doing for the intent it had ;)

the semantics of this thing were clear as mud, and actually
disfunctional.... (and the user of it that "broke" actually wanted
something else, but didn't because a few drivers didn't implement it
quite the right way)
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