From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933245AbXCVPej (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:34:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933258AbXCVPej (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:34:39 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:54636 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933245AbXCVPei (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:34:38 -0400 Subject: Re: sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far) From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Greg KH Cc: Pavel Machek , Maxim , Andrew Morton , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070322152842.GA6054@kroah.com> References: <200703161230.03712.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <200703161919.44458.lenb@kernel.org> <200703180100.01889.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <20070320115403.GA3983@ucw.cz> <20070322152842.GA6054@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:41:53 +0100 Message-Id: <1174578114.10840.194.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 08:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:54:03AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > root@MAIN:/home/maxim# cat /sys/devices/system/clockevents/clockevents0/registered > > > lapic F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 1 > > > hpet F:0003 M:1(shutdown) C: 0 > > > lapic F:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 0 > > > root@MAIN:/home/maxim# > > > > Now... this file needs to die, before 2.6.21 is released. It tries to > > bring /proc-like parsing nightmare to sysfs. Kill it before it becomes > > part of stable ABI! > > Eeek! > > I agree, that needs to be fixed now. > > Remember, 1 value per file in sysfs! Shall I just submit a patch > ripping it out for now? I fix it. tglx