HID: removing obsolete kone_abi_version sysfs attr for roccat kone
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From: Jiri Kosina on 21 Jun 2010 08:10 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Stefan Achatz wrote: > The newest version of the accompanying userland tools cuts backward > compatibility and uses libudev to find its devices superseding the > quirky kone_abi_version sysfs attribute. Therefore it should be removed. How backwards incompatible this change actually is? What happens if you run old userspace tool (the one which looks for kone_abi_version) on a kernel with this patch applied? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Jiri Kosina on 21 Jun 2010 09:30
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Stefan Achatz wrote: > The newest version of the accompanying userland tools cuts backward > compatibility and uses libudev to find its devices superseding the > quirky kone_abi_version sysfs attribute. Therefore it should be removed. Thanks for explanation of the backwards compatibility (non-)issues with userspace tools in the other mail. I have queued tha patch. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |