Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 150 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:32:03PM -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:12:09 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:07:29PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 18:33, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > >> udev 150
> > > >> ====
> > > >> Bugfixes.
> > > >>
> > > >> Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while.
> > > >> Many users depend on the current sysfs layout and the
> > > >> information not available in the deprecated layout. All
> > > >> remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is removed now.
> > > >
> > > > Nice, we should start to work on removing this option in the
> > > > kernel now as well.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, that would be awesome, and make the "subsystem patch", which
> > > cleans up the last weirdness in sysfs, the artificial split between
> > > classes and buses, really really simple. :)
> > 
> > I would like that.
> > 
> > Anyone remember what udev version that is needed if we remove that
> > kernel option?  I'll try to dig through the different distros to see
> > if it is yet safe to remove.
> 
> 
> Back in Slackware 12.0, we shipped 2.6.21.5 with:
>   # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
>   # CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
> and udev-111.  Maybe that's helpful  :-)

It is, thanks.  So I'm guessing the release before this needed that
setting?  If so, is it still being supported, and when was it released?

thanks,

greg k-h