From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757730AbZGCCSd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757639AbZGCCSJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:09 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41783 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757610AbZGCCSI (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:08 -0400 Subject: Reminder for feature ACPI procfs interface removal date July 2008 From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Len Brown , Zhang Rui , linux-acpi , LKML Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:39:53 +0530 Message-Id: <1246586993.2530.11.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 (2.26.1-2.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Len and Zhang, What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that there is enough time for the user space to catch up. Who: Zhang Rui --------------------------- What: /proc/acpi/button When: August 2007 Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer since 2.6.20. Who: Len Brown --------------------------- What: /proc/acpi/event When: February 2008 Why: /proc/acpi/event has been replaced by events via the input layer and netlink since 2.6.23. Who: Len Brown If you are facing any issue regarding feature removal kindly update the "Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt" like what you are waiting for. Thanks, -- JSR http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/