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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:09:23PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Monday 14 May 2012 03:53:53 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > My question... is this API stable or deprecated? I.e. can I count on |
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> > it being around for a while? I figure this question is a developer type |
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> > question rather than ordinary user type. |
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> if userspace is relying on stuff in /sys, then it's part of the ABI |
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Yes, but note, you are looking at the wrong thing, what you are reading |
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isn't really what you think it means... |
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And to rely on sysfs, you have to be very careful, you can not rely on |
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position, or files, always being where you saw them yesterday as device |
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ids, topologies, and other stuff, change all the time. |
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greg k-h |
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