On Sunday 06 January 2008, Yi Yang wrote: > > > How about not changing a userland-visible interface gratuitously? > > "empty" can't tell a user the state of wakeup of a device, so it is > necessary to change it.
Words don't say anything at all in isolation. For example, here the current tristate behavior has been documented for several years now ... and that's the only thing that could have conveyed any meaning whatever. I can't agree that it's even slightly "necessary" to make such a grutuitous and backwards-incompatible change. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/