[PATCH] powerpc: warn users of smt-snooze-delay that the API isn't there anymore

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 26 09:40:02 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:29 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
> We currently do not use smt-snooze-delay in the kernel.
> The sysfs entries needs to  be retained until we do a clean up
> ppc64_cpu
> util that uses these entries to determine SMT,
> clean up patch for this has already been posted out by Prerna.
> Once, we have the ppc64_cpu changes in, we can look to clean up these
> parts from the kernel.

We generally shouldn't change user visible interfaces.

People still have old versions of ppc64_cpu, we must not break them

Cheers,
Ben.




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