Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: remove threeg and interface sysfs interfaces

From: Darren Hart
Date: Tue Oct 06 2015 - 18:39:57 EST


On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:17:42PM +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Since v3.0 kernel, acer-wmi driver auto detects internal 3G device and
> provides the threeg rfkill interface. So the sysfs interface of 3G is
> no longer necessary now.
>
> The 7b8aca65 patch added kernel information log to remind to user space
> for the threeg sysfs interface will be removed in 2012, then b58b9ffc patch
> updated the interface removing time to 2014.
>
> I think the 3 years lead time is enough for user space application to use
> rfkill instead of sysfs interface to control 3G device.

Seems reasonable :)

Queued to testing, and then to next hopefully tomorrow.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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