From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933185AbXCVPal (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933228AbXCVPal (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:30:41 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40594 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933217AbXCVPak (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:30:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:28:42 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek Cc: Maxim , Andrew Morton , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sysfs ugly timer interface (was Re: [BUG] 2.6.21-rc1,2,3 regressions on my system that I found so far) Message-ID: <20070322152842.GA6054@kroah.com> References: <200703161230.03712.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <200703161919.44458.lenb@kernel.org> <200703180100.01889.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <20070320115403.GA3983@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070320115403.GA3983@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? thanks, greg k-h