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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:06:23 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:46:20 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 9 2007 17:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> >> This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs interface.
> >
> >What part of "we do not gratuitously break user space interfaces" is so
> >hard for people to understand.
> 
> Generally I am with you on that, but if everyone keeps on using /proc --
> and I do[*] -- we will never get rid of it.

And why do we need to get rid of it ?