Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:24:18AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >> This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to
> >> remove.
> 
> Also still used for booting mainline kernels on RHEL5 userspaces.

Really?  I thought that was fixed a long time ago.  What kernel was
RHEL5 originally based on?

And note that no RHEL5 user is going to be using a .36 kernel on their
system, that's a completely unsupported and unadvised situation.  Heck,
I'd be amazed if a .34 kernel.org kernel boots on the thing, does it?

> Live with your mistakes guys, don't try and bury them.

I'm not, I honestly thought that we had resolved these issues.

So, which version of Centos matches up with RHEL5 so I can go download
it and see if I can resolve this?  We might just be able to reduce the
ammount of code we remove here and keep the Kconfig option around, if
that old userspace is expecting a portion of the symlinks to still be
present.

thanks,

greg k-h