linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: new Intel Atom SoC power management controller driver

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Message-ID: <53180D39.7050207@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:52:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"alan@...ux.intel.com" <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: new Intel Atom SoC power management controller driver

On 03/05/2014 09:33 PM, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> 
> These interfaces are uncommitted and don't have consumers now, I'd like
> to keep them unstable in debugfs.
> 
> We can change it if we received a requirement to use them later.
> 

What we absolutely don't want to happen is someone starting to use these
unstable interfaces for something other than debugging.  If debugfs ever
needs to be mounted in a system for full functionality, that is a bug.

	-hpa


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