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    ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groups · cc4c24e1
    Henrique de Moraes Holschuh authored
    The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released
    in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in
    order to get the attributes more organized.
    
    This proved to be a really bad design decision.  Maybe if attribute groups
    were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not
    second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have
    been so bad.
    
    This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus
    removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that
    hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the
    documentation.
    
    These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to
    maintain.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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