Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:29:13 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:15 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:34:49 -0800
> > David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt has warned about this since
> > > August
> > 
> > Nobody reads that.
> > 
> > Please, wherever possible, put a nice printk("this is going away") in the code
> > when planning these things.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Index: g26/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c
> ===================================================================
> --- g26.orig/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c	2006-09-27 16:19:00.000000000 -0700
> +++ g26/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c	2006-12-19 19:27:25.000000000 -0800
> @@ -42,9 +42,17 @@ static ssize_t state_show(struct device 
>  
>  static ssize_t state_store(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char * buf, size_t n)
>  {
> +	static int warned;
>  	pm_message_t state;
>  	int error = -EINVAL;
>  
> +	if (!warned) {
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING
> +			"*** WARNING *** sysfs devices/.../power/state files "
> +			"are only for testing, and will be removed\n");
> +		warned = error;
> +	}
> +
>  	/* disallow incomplete suspend sequences */
>  	if (dev->bus && (dev->bus->suspend_late || dev->bus->resume_early))
>  		return error;

Well that's not much use.  It tells people "hey, we broke it".  They
already knew that.

What we should do is to revert 047bda36150d11422b2c7bacca1df324c909c0b3 and
add a printk("hey, we'll be breaking this soon").