linux-kernel - Re: Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading.

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Message-ID: <20070718234020.GA5971@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:40:20 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@....ac.uk>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Rod Whitby <rod@...tby.id.au>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: Documentation for sysfs, hotplug, and firmware loading.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> PICK ONE!  JUST #*%(&#%& PICK ONE!  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
> 
> I don't care where it is.  Just put it somewhere I can find it, and keep it 
> there.  All this gratuitous moving stuff around serves NO PURPOSE other than 
> to break userspace.  I'm trying to document this so that the next time you 
> go "oh wait, it should be at "/sys/tarantula/fruitbat" I can show that you're 
> breaking an existing documented userspace API.
> 
> There's a kernel config option to make symlinks from the old 
> location.  /sys/block makes as much sense as any other location, and it's 
> what's there now.

Read the sysfs documentation file we just added, it describes how this
is all documented and should be used.  So well that I do not think you
need to try to document it again.

thanks,

greg k-h
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