Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Document the rfkill sysfs ABI
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, florian@mickler.org,
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	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:00 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:08:50AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Hi Johannes,
> >=20
> > > > This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
> > > > ABI subfolder and reformats it.
> > > >=20
> > > > Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
> > >=20
> > > This is fine with me.
> >=20
> > we have to be careful here. Some of these sysfs details needs to be
> > deprecated and removed. Applications should use /dev/rfkill
> actually.
>=20
> Maybe all of it should be in "obsolete"?

Maybe, maybe not. Some people hate /dev/rfkill because it means they
need to use a programming language (rather than shell scripts), and I
don't care enough to fight with them.

For all I care, it can be at the current status quo forever.

johannes

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