On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > driver-core-remove-config_sysfs_deprecated-and-confi.patch > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > commit 8b2493474383d7966b09bce73a840539090e7d75 > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Feb 23 08:33:26 2023 +0100 > > driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 > > [ Upstream commit 721da5cee9d43901105f5b8bd33fcb9101b12fc3 ] > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c985e35 > ("CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED") in 2006 to allow systems with older versions > of some tools (i.e. Fedora 3's version of udev) to boot properly. Four > years later, in 2010, the option was attempted to be removed as most of > userspace should have been fixed up properly by then, but some kernel > developers clung to those old systems and refused to update, so we added > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in commit e52eec13cd6b ("SYSFS: Allow boot > time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout") to allow > them to continue to boot properly, and we allowed a boot time parameter > to be used to switch back to the old format if needed. > > Over time, the logic that was covered under these config options was > slowly removed from individual driver subsystems successfully, removed, > and the only thing that is now left in the kernel are some changes in > the block layer's representation in sysfs where real directories are > used instead of symlinks like normal. > > Because the original changes were done to userspace tools in 2006, and > all distros that use those tools are long end-of-life, and older > non-udev-based systems do not care about the block layer's sysfs > representation, it is time to finally remove this old logic and the > config entries from the kernel. > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Stable-dep-of: 5fa3d1a00c2d ("block: Set memalloc_noio to false on device_add_disk() error path") While this seems like a dependency, it shouldn't be, I'll see if I can rework it so that this commit is not needed as we can't drop this in 5.15.y :( thanks, greg k-h
