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

[Daniel Walker]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your
saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6
months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy
way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time
passes.

Daniel

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