Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 21:35:06 EST


On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:15:24 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:34:49 -0800
> David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt has warned about this since
> > August
>
> Nobody reads that.

Ugh, I read it.

> Please, wherever possible, put a nice printk("this is going away") in the code
> when planning these things.

Can notices go in both places, or is in the source code (printk)
now the preferred way?

I think that we can point people to Doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt
easier (and more effectively) than we can source code (or noisy kernel
logs).

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~Randy
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