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[4/5] batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated

Message ID 20190303170259.31798-5-sven@narfation.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Simon Wunderlich
Headers
Series batman-adv: Deprecation of sysfs |

Commit Message

Sven Eckelmann March 3, 2019, 5:02 p.m. UTC 
  The sysfs files are replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. The old
sysfs configuration interface was frowned upon by other kernel developers.
But the files cannot be removed immediately because userspace tools might
still depend on it. Instead schedule for its removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
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 .../ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv      | 2 ++
 Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-class-net-mesh  | 2 ++
 MAINTAINERS                                                   | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 rename Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv (92%)
 rename Documentation/ABI/{testing => obsolete}/sysfs-class-net-mesh (97%)
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
similarity index 92%
rename from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
rename to Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
index 89810684..5bdbc8d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ 
+This ABI is deprecated and will be removed after 2021. It is
+replaced with the batadv generic netlink family.
 
 What:           /sys/class/net/<iface>/batman-adv/elp_interval
 Date:           Feb 2014
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-mesh b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-mesh
similarity index 97%
rename from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-mesh
rename to Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-mesh
index c2b956d4..04c1a293 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-mesh
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-mesh
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ 
+This ABI is deprecated and will be removed after 2021. It is
+replaced with the batadv generic netlink family.
 
 What:           /sys/class/net/<mesh_iface>/mesh/aggregated_ogms
 Date:           May 2010
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5fe4a8f3..e205c8e3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@  L:	b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
 W:	https://www.open-mesh.org/
 Q:	https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/project/batman/list/
 S:	Maintained
-F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
-F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-mesh
+F:	Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
+F:	Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-net-mesh
 F:	Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
 F:	include/uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h