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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 21 18:43:56 EST 2013


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.

Cheers,
Ben.




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