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

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Mar 21 23:42:15 EST 2013


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:16 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> <benh at kernel.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
>
> Whatever... it's still gross :-)

ptffff!

g.

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