linux-kernel - Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

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Message-ID: <20090708151258.GA30765@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:12:58 -0400
From:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...onical.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

Greg KH (gregkh@...e.de) said: 
> > So that could be related to what you're seeing.
> 
> That file is now available in /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices if you
> really need it.

How is a deprecated-but-stable filesystem ABI better than a guaranteed-to-
not-be-stable debugfs ABI?

Bill
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