Re: cpufreq deprecation

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 17:10:09 EST


Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Today I learned that /proc/cpufreq is going to be removed
> from 2.6.. I thought that 2.6 means "no interface changes" :-(.

Well, we'll see. One very good reason for adding such a runtime warning is
to give people six months to convince the developers that it's a bad idea.

> Anyway, if
> we are going to warn about it, we might want to include newline...

Sure.

> - printk(KERN_INFO "Access to /proc/sys/cpu/ is deprecated and will be removed from (new) 2.6. kernels soon after 2005-01-01");
> + printk(KERN_INFO "Access to /proc/sys/cpu/ is deprecated and will be removed from (new) 2.6. kernels soon after 2005-01-01\n");

hrmpf. The original author is hereby impaled upon a metaphorical 80-col
xterm. Shall fix that too.

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