Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:59:37AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:36 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Deprecating sysfs interfaces can be done within 6 months or so, 
> > especially if there's only one real consumer.
> 
> I'll assume your right (can you give an example of this?), but why
> should we even add it if we know it's already going to get replaced.
> It's like it's pre-deprecated ..

See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's 
going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working 
way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for 
that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now.

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