From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261219AbVG0XMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261216AbVG0XMD (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:12:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42437 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261214AbVG0XKP (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:10:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:09:07 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Len Brown Cc: thecwin@gmail.com, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Message-Id: <20050727160907.7d1ed683.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> References: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Len Brown 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.