On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:17:29PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I should not have broken any userspace if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is > > enabled with that patch. If that is enabled, and that patch still > > causes problems, please let me know. > > But we still need to update the help text for CONFIG_SYS_DEPRECATED to > make it clear that its deprecation schedule still needs to be 2009 to > 2011 (depending on whether we want to accomodate Debian's glacial > release schedule). Certainly the 2006 date which is currently there > simply isn't accurate. Ok, how about the following patch. Is it acceptable to everyone? thanks, greg k-h --- init/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/init/Kconfig +++ gregkh-2.6/init/Kconfig @@ -290,8 +290,17 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in order to support older versions of udev. - If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, - it should be safe to say N here. + If you are using an OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, or Fedora + release from 2007 or later, it should be safe to say N here. + + If you are using Debian or other distros that are slow to + update HAL, please say Y here. + + If you have any problems with devices not being found properly + from userspace programs, and this option is disabled, say Y + here. + + If you are unsure about this at all, say Y. config RELAY bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
