From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753196Ab3KPUJl (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:09:41 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:61654 "EHLO mail-pd0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751901Ab3KPUJc (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:09:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop> 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> <1363869397.17680.24.camel@pasglop> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:09:32 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: wgLS2QOmdDMj5Y7wgMx4i-4LxG8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Grant Likely , Linux Kernel Mailing List , devicetree-discuss , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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 :-) Even Android mounts it there ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds