linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Document the rfkill sysfs ABI

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Message-ID: <1266851877.23882.67.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:17:57 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, florian@...kler.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Document the rfkill sysfs ABI

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:00 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:08:50AM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Hi Johannes,
> > 
> > > > This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
> > > > ABI subfolder and reformats it.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
> > > 
> > > This is fine with me.
> > 
> > we have to be careful here. Some of these sysfs details needs to be
> > deprecated and removed. Applications should use /dev/rfkill
> actually.
> 
> Maybe all of it should be in "obsolete"?

Maybe, maybe not. Some people hate /dev/rfkill because it means they
need to use a programming language (rather than shell scripts), and I
don't care enough to fight with them.

For all I care, it can be at the current status quo forever.

johannes

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