From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1STxqb-0005RL-1s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:10:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C770E0845; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C876E062D for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D47A1BC081 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:09:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0-rc6; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1885406.sPn6nf2PFy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201205141209.23948.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9b753d42-e659-4c03-ad3a-8e8eaa88f611 X-Archives-Hash: 3422b0d2823a590eafa14354584a9e13 --nextPart1885406.sPn6nf2PFy Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday 14 May 2012 03:53:53 Walter Dnes wrote: > My question... is this API stable or deprecated? I.e. can I count on > it being around for a while? I figure this question is a developer type > question rather than ordinary user type. if userspace is relying on stuff in /sys, then it's part of the ABI -mike --nextPart1885406.sPn6nf2PFy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPsS4zAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBvY4P/2UZvU7/AwHZ6gGeIecnF2Vq UPR+PveHfhM+tPxn131iPHnE1iRq530ChNInY+ivpv5jQ1Gz1/9CRaRltU4crHa/ MrOj+tZQr8RA24yIWfRFvBSRoH5rajP6piVeQF3lo7d81FPKFDRO/pQ3Oqhi+l3Z Qhq2YrVAiivuiV1KhfnVJ7fC8FPcI9x/EuPclhTXPZfkGfElLltc+3b2QeCNHKtF pzS3iA6Oe3iNH63XF4QuXH9d0i5Chn8xlGkl1oN8F92GuEv4lbJ/7spnmkyt5Bbu 3Dofe0iLv2PSy6L18l2ksrF59FjsjArF2mtmiRgbM3mKf6tZzIkBmyy2B7KIcIKh Levz5VJQI4xGGBMj7TV/93M1bvNbSqnhgQ7t/Op4FHiirIPahsO9Z/nebjpSFwxX KdkpgeuGnAcrMLSXuN/jocN5N57dsbBIK3VfvKKPdAMP3C8k0sFf1eD8CqR9fe/b NG9X6Wqikdpznj1GrWVyuanPAMZzoMtPInwN2O7jikhCyHfeSGGzOp6Z9AiMTiS9 PIps8XyKdVrWsE+asU+/eaJ7aUDOMshTysmp3VD/qm1gTuZu1Gx3p6r61cwFLOsX hsmQOZs8QtOu+0xn/nD1nw3wnzNGepPuax22951B7wwQq20KMwHozZdVsvix9VUY WrDyzsxRjkJFfcoTmQwe =3n54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1885406.sPn6nf2PFy--