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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:52:09 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Changes to PM layer break userspace On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:34:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I would be very interested to see any newer SuSE programs using that > interface. Just point them out to me and I'll quickly fix them. As far as I can tell, powersaved still uses these.. I'm not quite sure how you can fix it without just removing the functionality from it... > And yes, as a SuSE developer (and one of the people in charge of the > SuSE kernels), I have no problem with these files just going away. > Because, as David keeps repeating, they are broken and wrong. In the common case, it works perfectly well for the management of individual PCI devices. Yes it's "wrong", in much the same way as (say) the IDE bus registration/unregistration code. But we keep that around because despite it being even more broken than devices/.../power/state, people are still actually using it and we haven't provided any sort of alternative. Seriously. How many pieces of userspace-visible functionality have recently been removed without there being any sort of alternative? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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