Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Fri Jun 18 2004 - 08:56:14 EST


On Fri, Jun 18, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:20:48AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, 4Front Technologies wrote:
> >
> > > It's time everybody started to pay some attention to in-kernel interfaces because
> > > Linux has graduated out of your personal sandbox to where other people want to use
> > > Linux and they aren't kernel developers.
> >
> > Look into your own diapers, learn the meaning of "documented interfaces"
> > and come back if you can show that SuSE broke exactly this.
>
> If renaming /proc/bus/usb/devices to
> /proc/bus/usb/devices_please-use-sysfs-instead is not breaking of
> "documented interface" then I have no idea what "documented interface"
> is...

I would not call this file an interface, but utter bullshit. Just
because it breaks all these bullshit devices...

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