Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Jul 09 2007 - 11:52:23 EST


On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:57:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs interface.

This was only flagged deprecated in January. Userspace hasn't really
caught up, so I think removing it now is premature. Given the quantity
of software that's been written to use the old /proc interface, I don't
think we're realistically going to be able to remove it in the
forseeable future.

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