linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] HID: roccat: Finishing cleanup and reset support

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:25:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Stefan Achatz <stefan_achatz@....de>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] HID: roccat: Finishing cleanup and reset support

On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Stefan Achatz wrote:

> This patchset finishes current cleanups and unifications.
> 
> Device reset is now implemented for all devices that support that
> feature.
> 
> A couple sysfs attributes have been deprecated and got replaced to unify
> the ABI as good as it gets with design decisions made in the past.
> 
> The next release of userland tools will only use these obsolete
> attributes as fallback. When that version is out, I will add all actual
> sysfs attributes from ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-* to
> feature-removal-schedule.txt.

That file doesn't exist any more. Documenting in ABI/obsolete is the best 
we can get currently, I think. We are more-or-less safe to do that, as the 
interfaces have been in testing/ and the only documented user is your 
userspace program.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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