From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: thecwin@gmail.com, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:09:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727160907.7d1ed683.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com>
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 07:25 -0400, Cameron Harris wrote:
> > I just upgraded from 2.6.11.3 and now my /proc/acpi/button directory
> > doesn't exist...
>
> I deleted /proc/acpi/button on purpose,
> did you have a use for those files?
Can we put it back, please?
> Note that over time everything in /proc/acpi is
> going away. In this case, there didn't seem to be
> a case for making appear in /sys.
That'll be hard. I guess we could add the new /sys entries, make sure that
userspace tool developers have migrated and then remove the /proc entries
in a year or so.
We cannot go ripping out stuff which applications and users are currently
using without quite a lot of preparation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-22 11:25 Cameron Harris
2005-07-26 19:44 ` Len Brown
2005-07-26 19:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-07-27 21:18 ` [ACPI] " Pavel Machek
2005-07-26 20:03 ` Pavel Troller
2005-07-27 23:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-27 20:49 Brown, Len
2005-07-29 16:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-27 23:19 Brown, Len
2005-07-27 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27 23:40 Brown, Len
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