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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER to be removed in 2.6.39
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 08:55:23AM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is still there. Missed it or did you want it
> > to reside?
> 
> There was a patch to remove it,
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/654021/
> 
> Don't know why it is not merged.

There's still plenty of userspace using it. There probably ought to at 
least be a period where using it generates a deprecation warning.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org