Commit bc513577 authored by Dominik Brodowski's avatar Dominik Brodowski Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule

Even though these 2.4. interfaces are already gone in Dave Jones' cpufreq
bitkeeper tree, here's a patch which properly announces it in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt:

Add meaningful content concerning the removal of deprecated interfaces to
the cpufreq core.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent da4dd92e
...@@ -17,10 +17,18 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> ...@@ -17,10 +17,18 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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What: /proc/sys/cpu and the sysctl interface to cpufreq (2.4.x interfaces) What: /proc/sys/cpu/*, sysctl and /proc/cpufreq interfaces to cpufreq (2.4.x interfaces)
When: January 2005 When: January 2005
Files: drivers/cpufreq/: cpufreq_userspace.c, proc_intf.c Files: drivers/cpufreq/: cpufreq_userspace.c, proc_intf.c
function calls throughout the kernel tree Why: /proc/sys/cpu/* has been deprecated since inclusion of cpufreq into
Why: Deprecated, has been replaced/superseded by (what?).... the main kernel tree. It bloats /proc/ unnecessarily and doesn't work
well with the "governor"-based design of cpufreq.
/proc/cpufreq/* has also been deprecated for a long time and was only
meant for usage during 2.5. until the new sysfs-based interface became
ready. It has an inconsistent interface which doesn't work well with
userspace setting the frequency. The output from /proc/cpufreq/* can
be emulated using "cpufreq-info --proc" (cpufrequtils).
Both interfaces are superseded by the cpufreq interface in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%n/cpufreq/.
Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
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