On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven writes:
>
> > shouldn't this move over to sysfs at some point, to some firmware
> > directory ?
>
> Well, eventually maybe, but there are userspace programs using it, so
> we can't remove the /proc interface for a while yet.
sure that's a given, the question is I guess first to start providing a
sysfs equivalent so that apps CAN start using the new thing, before even
thinking about the obsoletion of the old interface. That was more what I
was fishing for ...
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