On Saturday 13 May 2006 5:13 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 06:52 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Friday 12 May 2006 3:11 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > What will be impacted by this?
> >
> > Driver suspend/resume testing ... impact is strongly negative.
> > ...
> > Which IMO makes removing this a Bad Thing. It needs to have some
> > kind of replacement in place before the "magic numbers" go away.
>
> And that's why Pavel is not proposing to remove it right away... but to
> schedule it's removal so that developpers know right now that building a
> whole new kernel<->user interface based on that is not the smartest
> thing to do.
How could we schedule the removal before we have even had a couple
releases to fine-tune its replacement, and verify that the main issues
with the current thing are fully resolved?
... plus, removing the whole power/* directory is clearly wrong. The
issue that's been acknowledged is only with the contents of a single
file, power/state, not the whole directory.
There may be a bit of a gap in the process here. "July 2007" is a
date that's not backed up by anything more than agreement that the
current approach is a lose. Deprecation is not the same as removal.
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