From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932781Ab3CUMg6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:36:58 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:54326 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755845Ab3CUMg5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:36:57 -0400 Message-ID: <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Grant Likely Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , devicetree-discuss , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "David S. Miller" Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:36:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1363791074-16415-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <1363791074-16415-3-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <1363791479.12701.9.camel@pasglop> <1363839594.17680.19.camel@pasglop> <1363851836.17680.20.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:16 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 07:35 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > >> > Shouldn't we have the symlink just be a config option itself ? > >> > Eventually distros might want get rid of it completely .. > >> > >> Why? It is the cheapest thing in the world and it means the ABI > >> doesn't change at all. > > > > It's also gross and forces sysfs to remain in /sys which isn't a kernel > > enforced policy afaik. > > Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, Line 30 Whatever... it's still gross :-) Cheers, Ben.