> Greg KH (
greg@kroah.com) said:
> > If you follow the rules in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class your
> > program will not have any problems.
>
> Oh, of *course*. We add interfaces and then claim years later,
> after code has been written, "Oh, you shouldn't be using that!" in
> documentation. Meanwhile, such code using the old interface will still
> a) continue to compile b) continue to run without any sort of warnings.
>
> If interfaces have to change, so be it. But changing the rules for
> using them years after it's implemented and then claiming "you didn't
> read the instructions" is pretty lame.