On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:07:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:40:52AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >...
> >
> > The sane solution seems to be to enable SYSFS_DEPRECATED unconditionally
> > for all users, and schedule it's removal for mid-2008 (or later).
> >
> > 12 months after the first _release_ of a HAL that can live without seems
> > to be the first time when we can consider getting rid of it, since all
> > distributions with at least one release a year should ship it by then.
> >
> > Currently, SYSFS_DEPRECATED is only a trap for users.
>
> Huh?
>
> No, again, I've been using this just fine for about 6 months now.
>
> And what about all of the servers not using HAL/NetworkManager?
On a server, it shouldn't harm.
> And what about all of the embedded systems not using either?
If it was much code, I would have sent a patch that allowed disabling it
if EMBEDDED=y.
> So to not allow this to be turned off by people who might want to (we
> want this for OpenSuSE 10.3, and Fedora 7 also will want this, as will
> other distros released this year), is pretty heavy-handed.
>
> It also will work in OpenSuSE 10.2 which is already released, and I
> think Fedora 6, but I've only limited experience with these.
>
> Oh, and Gentoo works just fine, and has been for the past 6 months.
For most people, it simply doesn't matter whether SYSFS_DEPRECATED is
on or off.
But accidentally disabling SYSFS_DEPRECATED has proven to be a trap
people sometimes fall into - and tracking them down to
SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n sometimes takes some time.
> I would just prefer to come up with an acceptable set of wording that
> will work to properly warn people.
>
> I proposed one such wording which some people took as a slam against
> Debian, which it really was not at all.
>
> Does someone else want to propose some other wording instead?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
cu
Adrian
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