[RFC] PMU: replace information ioctls and schedule for removal

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Nov 13 03:33:38 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:02 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > This patch adds sysfs attributes to the PMU to allow getting
> > the information on the PMU type and whether adb is present from
> > there instead of via the ioctl. The ioctl is made optional and
> > scheduled for removal.
> 
> Acked-by:  Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> While there, maybe also expose the PMU version ?

Does anybody need that? I'm not against adding it but we never showed it
and I haven't seen anyone ask for it.

johannes
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