Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754077Ab1CWJq2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:46:28 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:41651 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751626Ab1CWJq0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:46:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:45:58 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Kay Sievers Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Paul Mundt , LKML , Greg KH , Linux PM mailing list , Magnus Damm , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Message-ID: <20110323094557.GA3040@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <201103100131.58206.rjw@sisk.pl> <20110322214922.GA7503@linux-sh.org> <1300831256.1815.22.camel@zag> <201103222323.42627.rjw@sisk.pl> <1300833843.1815.53.camel@zag> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1300833843.1815.53.camel@zag> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 24 On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:44:03PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > When we started to clean up /sys (again only talking about devices, not > other stuff) we had: > /block/* > /class//* > /bus//devices/* > /devices/system//* > which are 4 different exports of exactly the same thing, a "device". > "Block" we converted to "class" already, "class" will be converted to > "bus", and "bus" will be renamed to "subsystem". All the current names > will be kept as compat symlinks, just as we did for "block". I bet userspace will end up failing with that and need updating yet again, inspite of the symlinks. While Linus complains about the churn in the ARM subtree, I'd like to officially complain about the pointless churn in sysfs which actively breaks (and sometimes prevents) userspace booting when you upgrade kernels. -- 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/