From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:42:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxGe6uTpGmNyPLYD8drGycpH=XKu3s6ngPL6RquQ0DZX3WXGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:16 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 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 :-)
ptffff!
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 14:51 [PATCH 0/2] of: Create sysfs view of device tree nodes Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] of: Make device nodes kobjects so they show up in sysfs Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 16:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-20 17:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 21:28 ` Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree Grant Likely
2013-03-20 14:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-20 21:38 ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21 4:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21 7:35 ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21 7:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21 8:16 ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21 12:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21 12:42 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2013-11-16 20:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-03-20 15:19 ` Rob Herring
2013-03-20 16:24 ` Daniel Mack
2013-03-20 16:40 ` Grant Likely
2013-03-21 4:03 ` Rob Landley
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