linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree

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Message-ID: <CACxGe6thdnQo6sPDccEGzUEkXFDGRD4aq_DJOop6Cincb94ODA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:16:41 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: remove /proc/device-tree

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 07:35 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> > Shouldn't we have the symlink just be a config option itself ?
>> > Eventually distros might want get rid of it completely ..
>>
>> Why? It is the cheapest thing in the world and it means the ABI
>> doesn't change at all.
>
> It's also gross and forces sysfs to remain in /sys which isn't a kernel
> enforced policy afaik.

Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt, Line 30

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