On Ne 14-05-06 08:51:26, David Brownell wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, I meant only ../state file. Fixed locally.
> 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.
Maybe date will need to be shifted...
Pavel
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