From 7a9b9068b8c7b526894904c0b9b90354825b8fbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Rui Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:42:47 +0800 Subject: ACPI: update feature-removal-schedule.txt, /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace is gone The /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace has already been removed in 2.6.21. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 49ae1ea9e868..22fe37eca48d 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -227,20 +227,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- -What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace -When: 2.6.21 -Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for - the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary - and have no place being exposed to user-space. - - For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, - the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump - and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: - http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils -Who: Len Brown - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2007 Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated -- cgit v1.2.3 From 8b8eb7d8cfc6cd95ed00cd58754e8493322505bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Rui Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:23:24 +0800 Subject: ACPI: update ACPI proc I/F removal schedule ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and some user space tools still depend on the ACPI proc I/F. We plan to finish all the sysfs conversion by January 2008 and remove the ACPI proc I/F in July 2008. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 22fe37eca48d..769862197ac8 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -228,9 +228,10 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- What: ACPI procfs interface -When: July 2007 -Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated - in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. +When: July 2008 +Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. + ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that + there is enough time for the user space to catch up. Who: Zhang Rui --------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3