On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:24 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: >> The same data is now available in sysfs, so we can remove the code >> that exports it in /proc and replace it with a symlink to the sysfs >> version. >> >> Tested on versatile qemu model and mpc5200 eval board. More testing >> would be appreciated. > > This should be delayed until we are 100% confident that the sysfs > variant is totally backward compatible with anything that messes around > with /proc/device-tree.
Yup, I agree with that. > kexec comes to mind (all 4 variants of fs2dt.c (yuck !)), dtc, various > powerpc-utils (bootloader configuration etc...), and more. > > We also need to test the new code with hotplug, I'll see if I can get > somebody at IBM to give it a spin. Thanks g. -- 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/
