linux-kernel - Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace

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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:27:17 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace


> > 
> > > What we should do is to revert 047bda36150d11422b2c7bacca1df324c909c0b3 and
> > 
> > Bad answer
> 
> Is better than breaking stuff.

.. stuff that made assumptions about something and did stuff it probably
shouldn't have been doing for the intent it had ;)

the semantics of this thing were clear as mud, and actually
disfunctional.... (and the user of it that "broke" actually wanted
something else, but didn't because a few drivers didn't implement it
quite the right way)
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