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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:17:27 +0530
From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Seyfried" <seife@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface
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On 7/16/07, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:

> Holy sh*t. There is not even a functional replacement ready, but still
> everybody wants to remove /proc/acpi. (Maybe the replacement started
> to work recently, i have not looked into this area for the last months.
> This does not change my pint, though).
> This is not going to work.
> IMNSHO, we need the new interface available and usable for quite some time
> (i'd say for over one year), and then we can start to phase out the old
> interface.
> Starting with removing /proc/acpi is not the correct ordering of actions.

Heh, you're 3 days late to the party, but yeah, Zhang's corrected me/
pointed this out (the functionality in /proc/acpi not yet in the sysfs I/F
being used by said userspace tools) already. I guess I had originally
misunderstood the "some user space tools still use the ACPI procfs" bit.

Satyam