"/sys/devices/legacy" is an offending term
PATCH 1/1 "/sys/devices/legacy" is an offending term
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echo 50 >
/sys/devices/legacy/sa1100fb/brightness
Is there any change to get rid of this "legacy"? From my (still quite limited) understanding of the english language, this means old/outdated and has a not-so-good connotation. It's not just a fact, but puts a negative value into something. But maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, on embedded arches it makes no sense to say "Oh, PCI is all wow, non-pci is all boo".
I talked on the arm-linux-kernel mailing list and Russell King answered:
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I brought this exact point up with Pat Mochel at OLS this year. At the time, he agreed that it should be renamed to "platform".
I don't know if such a change will now be allowed for the 2.6 series, since it'll effectively be a user-visible interface change.
I do know that Pat is heavily overloaded with work, which probably explains why it hasn't happened.
In the hope that this happens I included a patch below.
If wished, I can provide a bigger patch that renames " legacy_bus" to "legacy_bus" as well.
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# Patch managed by http://www.mn-logistik.de/unsupported/pxa250/patcher
#
drivers/base/platform.c renamed from drivers/base/platform.c~legacy-platform +1 -1
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@#include <linux/init.h> struct device legacy_bus = { - .bus_id ="legacy" , + .bus_id ="platform" , };/**
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